Self-harming children are often bullied

Self-harming children are often bullied

Of that number of boys and girls aged between nine and 15, 30 had taken an intentional drug overdose. A further ten children needed treatment for self-inflicted lacerations and three had deliberately injured their head in a serious way, two of whom required CT scans. The statistics, gathered between January 2005 and December 2006, were revealed at an anti-bullying seminar by community paediatrician Dr Mark Jones. He said that although he did not know about individual cases, it was likely that a high proportion – as many as 50 per cent – of the children seen at the hospital with these symptoms would have reported bullying as part of their explanation for self-harming.

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