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by Lara Nelson

As your child transitions from high school to college, your instinct may be to help them as much as possible, even if it means taking out a loan or remortgaging your house. However, your future financial security should not be compromised to help your child with their college career. While there are many ways to help him or her pay for the new and rather expensive experience of college, it’s important not to lose sight of your personal goals.

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What is Embedding

Embedding or self-embedding is an extreme form of self injury where the person inserts object under the skin or muscle. These objects sometimes are broken crayons, paper clips, needles, pencil lead and even shards of wood. Sometimes the objects are temporarily left, other times the objects are permanent, often pushed in too far to be retrieved. This trend is rising amongst teens who previous were “cutters,” and who what to go to the next level, so to speak. With a cutter the thinking is once the cut heals, the pain is gone and with embedding the pain reoccurs and continues.

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