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Knowing that self-injurious behaviors are culturally determined and can quickly become habitual increases the importance of prevention.
David Leibow: Can You Catch Cutting and Burning from Your Friends? David Leibow 2010
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Once having been chosen, however, self-injurious behaviors have a way of becoming self-perpetuating and habitual.
David Leibow: Can You Catch Cutting and Burning from Your Friends? David Leibow 2010
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There are a whole bunch of self-injurious behaviors that young people pick up from their friends or from the cultural zeitgeist.
David Leibow: Can You Catch Cutting and Burning from Your Friends? David Leibow 2010
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But regardless of how these self-injurious behaviors began, they quickly take on a life of their own.
David Leibow: Can You Catch Cutting and Burning from Your Friends? David Leibow 2010
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Knowing that self-injurious behaviors are culturally determined and can quickly become habitual increases the importance of prevention.
David Leibow: Can You Catch Cutting and Burning from Your Friends? David Leibow 2010
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When detainees protested by attempting suicide, the Pentagon reclassified suicides as “manipulative self-injurious behaviors.”
duh pookie 2008
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Her supporters must hear that not voting or voting for McCain in protest is only creating self-injurious wounds.
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But if someone has become so insane that they are likely to be self-injurious, we have laws that cover declaring them mentally unstable and mandating forced in-patient treatment in a secure facility (I used to work in one such psychiatric hospital processing that very type of paperwork.)
Russ Belville: Dr. Drew Controversy Over Lindsay Lohan Comments (With His Tweets to "Radical" Russ) 2010
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When detainees protested by attempting suicide, the Pentagon reclassified suicides as “manipulative self-injurious behaviors.”
duh pookie 2008
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If public fear produced by this incident drives the U.S. toward self-injurious overreactions -- abandonment of plane travel, overwrought and poorly directed security measures, and so on -- then it will be a successful act of terrorism.
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