"recently growing in popularity, to almost epidemic proportions in the general adolescent population, is the act of self injry" (Communique 2011 articles that also state it is growing in population **(Roberts, Dontelle, 2007; (Kress and Drouhard ) (Kress, Gibson, and Reynold) (whisenhunt, Change, Flowers, Brack, O'Hara, and Raines**) (Madge Hawton...)