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Self-Harm - the Pandemic of Youth

When it's your BPD child who's self-harming

For young people with Borderline Personality Disorder, living with themselves and other people is excruciatingly painful. To dull the ache, many resort to self-harm. For RTD's Vitaly Buzuev, this cuts very close to home. He sets out to meet sufferers and their parents, to find out what living with mental anguish is really like.

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