cutting (self-mutilation)

Discusses self-injurious behavior, covering burning, cutting, signs of the disorder, medications, and support groups.

"When their best friend, Tink, dies from an apparent suicide, high school seniors Merissa and Nadia are alienated by their secrets, adrift from each other and from themselves."--Provided by published.

Willa's life as part of a loving, blended family is torn apart when her estranged father kills his new wife and children and heads east in pursuit of her and her mother, and while in police protection, Willa learns her mom has been harboring secrets, and tries to decide whether to share a devastating secret of her own.

Fifteen-year-old Kendra, a budding artist who has not felt safe since she began to remember devastating memories of childhood sexual abuse, cannot seem to recall her abuser's identity and copes with the stress by cutting herself.

Sixteen-year-old Missy copes with being an outcast at school and stress at home by cutting herself with a razor blade, until Death chooses her as one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, War, and offers her a new blade.

A discussion of cutting and self-injury, explaining what it is and why it happens, encouraging young people to seek help from a trusted adult, and including coping strategies.

In his early twenties, David Fitzpatrick became so consumed by mental illness that he began to cut himself. With therapy he emerged from his self-destructiveness with a knowledge that eventually led to his own emotional resurrection.

Gets inside the mind of a person who cuts themselves to relieve their internal pain. The author has fought her way back to emotional health and has rebuilt her life.

Tom Hathaway, a wealthy student who relies on his designer clothes to define who he is, meets Sylvia and discovers a dark side of life.