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Gender Identity Issues Can Harm Kids' Mental Health: Study
Health.com
Forty-three patients already had psychiatric symptoms, 20 reported self-mutilation and nine had attempted suicide. The studies appear online and in the March issue of the journal Pediatrics. Dr. Walter Meyer III, author of an accompanying journal ...
Gender Uncertainty Risky for KidsMedPage Today
Children with gender identity disorder are at serious psychiatric riskHealthCanal.com

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Self-plucking parrot on the mend in foster home
San Francisco Chronicle
Muriel, the African Grey parrot, is in a protective collar to prevent herself from further self-mutilation. When a badly damaged African Grey named Muriel was surrendered at a local shelter, the bird appeared to be beyond hope.




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Kyrgyz prisoners end self-mutilation protest
Aljazeera.com
More than 200 later appealed for medical help to remove the stitches, prison service spokeswoman said. "We were on hunger strike since January 16, we have ended it today. Now everything is alright," one of the inmates of Bishkek's main prison, Adilet, ...

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Seattle program helps evaluate children who want a sex change
Q13 FOX
Almost 21 percent reported self-mutilation and 9 percent attempted suicide. The youngest child in the study was 4 years old. Edwards-Leeper and others are working to treat kids with counseling and, if necessary, with puberty-blocking drugs, ...




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Sex-changing treatment for kids: It's on the rise
FederalNewsRadio.com
These children sometimes resort to self-mutilation to try to change their anatomy; the other two journal reports note that some face verbal and physical abuse and are prone to stress, depression and suicide attempts. Spack said those problems typically ...
More transgender kids seeking help, getting treatmentmsnbc.com
Medical Sex Change Treatment For Children Is IncreasingBabble (blog)

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Ending solitary confinement
Boston Globe
Fifteen inmate suicides from 2005 to 2007 and numerous suicide attempts, assaults, and acts of self-mutilation by mentally ill prisoners took a terrible psychic and physical toll on correction officers, as well. Both prison advocates and the correction ...

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He falls upon the thorns of life, he bleeds
Baltimore Sun
This is how it opens: "I have just come across Mr. John McIntyre's Baltimore Sun article on my April 2011 Vocabula essay, The Self-Mutilation of the OED, in which I bemoan the decline of the Oxford English Dictionary — the same essay Robert Hartwell ...

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Bodies under Siege: Self-mutilation, Nonsuicidal Self-injury, and Body ...
British Journal of Psychiatry
Bodies under Siege: Self-mutilation, Nonsuicidal Self-injury, and Body Modification in Culture and Society (3rd edn) By Armando Favazza. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2011. $35 (pb). 352 pp. ISBN: 9780801899669 Postdoctoral Research Worker, ...




Woody Harrelson: Great Ape Protection Act Will End Invasive Laboratory ...
Huffington Post
He adds: "This hellish experience leaves lifelong emotional scars on chimpanzees, and many of them resort to self-mutilation or suffer from depression and other psychological disorders for years after experiencing the trauma of having their minds and ...




Chad's Morning Brief: Santorum Up Big in Texas, Brokered GOP Convention Poll ...
News/Talk 790 KFYO
Newt Gingrich came in second with 18% of the support while Mitt Romney received 16%. Ron Paul according to the poll had the support of 14% of the respondents. If your Rick Santorum two things go through your mind. First thought is wow, Texas loves Rick ...

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