Therapy - Part V in Self-Injury series

» pjbutler - Self Injury and suicide

Is there an Australian "expert" on the topic of self injury that can shed some light on getting a 16 y.o. female through a SI situation? I am concerned that the mental health treatment currently occuring for one of my students is doing exactly what this article says shouldn't be done. The child is now regulated, being treated as having an early onset Schizophrenia, Bi-polar and OCD in a raft pf problems. It was more than we could handle in school, so we sent the child to the "experts" in Brisbane who have spent lots of energy attempting to bring some return to normality, vainly as it happens. The young lady has described to me, how cutting provides exactly the tension release as articulated in earlier articles. She is now suicidal and under constant watch. I am concerned that the treatment may have created suicidal ideation through preventing this extremely intelligent child from finding relief in the way that she chooses to. I would love to see her stop cutting, but I certainly don't want to see her dead. There seems to be no history of abuse and there are very supportive parents who don't know where to turn. I mean no ill to our local Drs, but is there someone who knows more who can help?
thanks, Peter Butler Brisbane Australia.

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