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Please help! how to help my girlfriend from cutting?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Encourage her to get: Professional help. Any person who engages in repeated cutting needs mental health assistance. A comprhensive psychological evaluation is needed. The person may need medications to help treat problems like anxiety, depression or bipolar disorder. If the cutting is associated with substance abuse – detoxification, 12 step program involvement or rehabilitation may be indicated. Dialectic behavioral.

Answered 7/15/2013

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