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When your child's pain becomes your prison

My teenage daughter cuts herself and I found out by accident, and now every time she goes upstairs I wonder if she's hurting herself and if I should follow her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Discovering a child's self-destruction creates a hypervigilance that can damage the very relationship meant to heal.

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