Conflicting emotions
Jan 01, 2022
2 minutes
by Marc Wilson
In international terms, Aotearoa has an unusually high number of people (and particularly young people) who say they have deliberately hurt themselves without wanting to die. This non-suicidal self-injury, or NSSI, may seem a bit of a conundrum because we’re actually well designed to avoid things that cause us injury. Pain, for instance, is a pretty good deterrent.
One strand that runs
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