Interviewer: Have you experienced the teen talking about self-harm before engaging in it with any of your patients ... You can't really close the book on the conversation with just that negative reply ...

Since 2016, there has been an 88 percent increase in digital self-harm among American teenagers. The phenomenon describes the act of teens posting negative content about themselves online.

Content warning: this story includes graphic descriptions of dangerous self-harm behaviors. The Google-funded AI company Character.AI is hosting chatbots designed to engage the site's largely ...

Resources like books, podcasts, or workshops can be ... struggles alone and that you’re here for them. Many teens engage in self-harm as a way to cope with overwhelming emotions, so it’s ...

Meta drastically downplayed the degree to which teens were being shown alarming pictures and videos on Instagram that depicted self-harm – even as the tech giant’s own research showed the ...

Weight-Obsessed Teens Face Triple the Odds for Self-Harm By Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Feb. 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Even if a teen is at a healthy weight, just thinking they ...

I am a reporter on the breaking news team based in New York City. Meta will remove content around self-harm, suicide, and eating disorders from teen users on Instagram and Facebook, even if it’s ...

In recent years, the problem of "self-harm," particularly among teens, has received increasing attention in the media and in medical studies. Self-harm refers to self-inflicted injuries that are ...

Examining more than 280,000 adolescent visits to U.S. trauma centers, investigators with Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota found that 1.6 percent involved self-harm in 2012 ...

Recent data from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services’ database reveals the years spanning from 2018 to 2022 witnessed a decrease in self-harm hospitalizations across every age group but ...

The bots often seem crafted to appeal to teens in crisis, like one we found with a profile explaining that it "struggles with self-harm" and "can offer support to those who are going through ...