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Child mental health admissions to acute wards in England rise 65% in a decade

Hospital wards struggle to cope with rising cases of self-harm and eating disorders, the study warns

The Guardian - UK

Parents File Lawsuit Against Character.AI After Bot Encourages 17-Year-Old Autistic Teen To Self-Harm

Character.AI is facing lawsuits from parents who claim it exposed their children to harmful content, including sexual themes and self-harm.

International Business Times UK

Mom Sues AI Company After Chatbot Allegedly Encourages Autistic Teen Son to Kill Parents For Limiting Screen Time

A lawsuit against Character.ai alleges that the chatbot app encouraged self-harm and suggested a teen kill his parents for limiting his screen time.

International Business Times

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Mom Sues AI Company After Chatbot Encourages Her Autistic Teen Son to Kill His Parents for Limiting Screen Time

A lawsuit against Character.ai alleges that the chatbot app encouraged self-harm and suggested a teen kill his parents for limiting his screen time.

Latin Times

Instagram actively helping spread of self-harm among teenagers, study finds

Researchers say parent company Meta is failing to remove explicit images on the social media site

The Guardian - UK

Guardiola Clarifies Light-Hearted Remark Following Champions League Match

Guardiola clarifies self-harm joke, City faces challenges after defeats, Gundogan emphasizes Liverpool match importance. Stay updated with the latest socce...

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Pep Guardiola issues statement over controversial 'self-harm' joke after Man City draw

The manager joked about wanting to “harm” himself after cutting his nose with his fingernail

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Man 'encouraged girls to self-harm for gratification'

A man accused of encouraging young girls to self-harm for the online viewer's sexual gratification is due to face court on child abuse charges.

AAP

‘I indulged in a lot of self-harm’: UK woman tells of damaging ‘spy cop’ relationship

‘Maya’ describes what she saw as abusive behaviour by undercover officer – who vanished and reappeared seven years later

The Guardian - UK

Health services at ‘breaking point’ as self-harm rises at immigration centre

Fights and assaults on staff at Brook House immigration removal centre have increased more than five-fold, inspectors warned.

The Independent UK

China: Car rams into group of people, killing 35 in Zhuhai; One held

The suspect, a 62-year-old divorced male, drove a car into the crowd. The suspect was trying to commit self-harm with a knife when he was controlled by the police at the scene. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Stephen Flynn urges Keir Starmer to stop 'economic self-harm' and rejoin EU

STEPHEN Flynn has urged Keir Starmer to drop his opposition to re-joining the EU amid the threat of US tariffs after Donald Trump’s election…

The National (Scotland)

Racism, colonialism 'driving Indigenous self-harm'

The ongoing trauma triggered by Australia's racist past is driving suicide in Indigenous communities at a rate more than double that of non-Indigenous people.

AAP

London hospital worker accused of causing death of 22-year-old mental health patient

Alice Figueiredo died at Goodmayes Hospital, a mental health facility in Redbridge, north-east London, on July 7 2015

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Parents in France take TikTok to court over self-harm content aimed at children

Seven families have filed a joint legal complaint against TikTok in France, accusing the video platform of exposing their teenage children to content about suicide, self-harm, eating disorders and other mental health problems that they argue encouraged them to hurt themselves.

The Guardian - UK

French parents whose children took own lives sue TikTok over harmful content

Lawsuit alleges TikTok’s algorithm exposed teenagers to videos promoting suicide, self-harm and eating disorders

Newcastle Herald

Furphy: Researchers say social media link to youth self-harm is weak

Rising social media use and self-harm is 'parallel, not causal'

The Independent UK

Prison self-harm at record high as deaths, assaults and staff attacks surge in overcrowding crisis

A prisoner self-harmed once every seven minutes and was assaulted once every 18 minutes in the last year, figures reveal

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Tennis Mailbag: Andrey Rublev’s Self-Flagellation, Daniel Nestor’s HoF Snub and More

Jon Wertheim answers your questions, starting with a discussion about the Russian star’s concerning pattern of self-harm and a point on the Hall of Fame controversy.

Reason

47 Sex Workers and 96 Clients Arrested in Florida 'Human Trafficking' Sting

Polk County, Florida, continues to be one of the worst offenders for sham efforts to combat human trafficking.

The Guardian - UK

Girl who stabbed teachers and pupil carried knives from age of seven, jury hears

Pupil, who was 13 at time of attacks, tells Swansea court she carried weapon as she self-harmed and was bullied

Medical Daily

How Nurses Play A Key Role In Suicide Prevention

The rapport nurses develop with patients can play a crucial role in encouraging individuals to open up about their thoughts of self-harm.

TechRadar

Meta, Snapchat, and TikTok launch the new Thrive mental health initiative, and it's about time

Meta, Snapchat and TikTok aim to police self-harm content more effectively with new Thrive initiative.

Newcastle Herald

'Out of control': Hunter records worst hospital admissions for self-harm

People can self-harm when 'unable to deal with the pain inside'.

The National (Scotland)

Figures reveal 13 asylum seekers have taken their own lives in past two years

A 14-YEAR-OLD girl from Iraq who threw herself from a building was among the 37 asylum seekers who have tried to take their own life in the past two…

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