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When you discover your child is self-harming

My teenage daughter cuts herself and I found out by reading her diary and now I don't know whether to confront her or pretend I don't know.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The knowledge of another's secret pain creates its own form of anguish about how to help without causing more harm.

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