Radiologists uncover new teen affliction: Self-embedding disorder


	Radiologists uncover new teen affliction: Self-embedding disorder

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1-2-2009 1:33 AM

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teens, teenager, adolescents, adolescence, injury, disorder, abnormal, clinical

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1-2-2009 2:35 AM

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...and I though that they wished to weigh less not more!!

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Personnel at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, report extracting 52 foreign objects that 10 teenage girls deliberately embedded in their arms, hands, feet, ankles and necks over the last three years, including needles, staples, wood, stone, glass, pencil lead and a crayon.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2008/dec/03/health/chi-embedding-disorder-03-dec03"><DIV>
One patient had inserted 11 objects, including an unfolded metal paper clip more than 6 inches long.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2008/dec/03/health/chi-embedding-disorder-03-dec03">They call the behavior “self-embedding disorder.”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2008/dec/03/health/chi-embedding-disorder-03-dec03">Self-injury is a disturbing trend among teenagers, particularly girls.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2008/dec/03/health/chi-embedding-disorder-03-dec03"><DIV>
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