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Podcast: Beyond Risk & Back
Episode: Interview with a Mom: Cutting Free
Description: Aaron Huey, your host and the owner of Fire Mountain Residential Treatment Center, talks with a mother who shares her story of cutting.Â
What is cutting?Why is this commonplace with so many kids and also adults?How to help?Is there hope?
In the most basic sense, cutting is a maladaptive coping mechanism that teenagers (and some adults) use during times of high stress and anxiety. While this act is hardly ever accompanied by suicidal thoughts, there is no single cause that has been identified. This self-harming pattern does not affect any one cultural or socioeconomic group a...