self embedding

[moshquerade]

Self-Mutilating Teens Embed Pins, Needles in Skin
Study Reports a New Form of Self-Injury, But Some Doctors Are Not Surprised
By LAUREN COX
ABC News Medical Unit
Dec. 9, 2008


Some doctors are alarmed by what they see as a growing trend by adolescents to mutilate their bodies through "self embedding" -- inserting shards of wood, glass, or paper clips under their skin.
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A researcher has identified a new phenomenon he calls "self-embedding disorder" -- adolescents and young adults believed to intentionally injure themselves, usually by cutting, as a response to emotional pain or trauma -- in a study presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America. Collapse
(Radiological Society of North America)

Other medical experts, however, claim the embedding of needles and other objects in the skin is not a new syndrome, but is part of a growing problem of self injury that is gaining attention.

The grisly debate began last week after a report at the annual Radiological Society of North America conference described "self embedding syndrome" as a new development. The report cited 10 teens in Ohio who had slipped a sharp object into their skin.

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http://www.abcnews.go.com/Heal...tory?id=6395262&page=1

 

[DarrelSPowers]

kids these days...

 

[Wheezer]

Well, as sad as this is, it's better that this is taken out on themselves vs. shooting up a school or getting drunk, taking mommy and daddy's car for a spin and killing some innocent person going on about their daily life.

 

[PottedMeat]

Well good for them - I'll be easier for us to embed tracking or mind control devices.

 

[ribbon13]

I used to put sewing needles/paper clips/safety pins in the surface layer of callouses all the time. Fun middle-schooler activity.

 

[Mutilator]

Cutting... embedding... a few years from now it'll be self amputation. Surely that will get Mommy & Daddy's attention right?

 

[BlackTigers]

I've jammed tacks into my skin before when I was going through a ....um.... bad period.

It's cleaner than the alternative and it actually does relieve your mind of anything that you have going on.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

isn't acupuncture therapy only around 100 bucks

 

[XxPrOdiGyxX]

........not gonna say anything because it would anger the emos.

 

[illusion88]

Originally posted by: ribbon13
I used to put sewing needles/paper clips/safety pins in the surface layer of callouses all the time. Fun middle-schooler activity.

yup

 

[montypythizzle]

I only do it for the luls.