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How to respond when you discover your teen self-harms

My teenage daughter self-harms and I found the cuts on her arms and I do not know how to talk to her without making her feel worse about herself.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Self-harm signals internal pain that often exceeds a parent's capacity to fix, requiring delicate balance between intervention and acceptance.

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