Green | December 12, 2008 | 8 comments

Embedding the next big thing?

source: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1865995,00.html

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At a recent medical conference in Chicago, a team of radiologists from Nationwide Children's Hospital presented intriguing X-ray evidence of a psychological phenomenon — what they believed was a new form of self-injury among teens and adolescents. Eleven out of 505 patients whom the team had treated in more than a decade had inserted objects — from chunks of crayon to unfolded paper clips — under their skin in a behavior the Nationwide team labeled "self-embedding."


OK I am all about self expression, but admittedly this kind of grosses me out....
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