Cutters: Self Abuse trailer

Cutters: Self Abuse trailer Watch the full film Here: www.joiningthedots.tv Vista del Mar children’s home, Los Angeles, is a 114 bed, 17 acre facility for troubled teens. Among the many therapy programs offered is the nation’s first residential self-injury treatment program for teenage girls. Physically injuring oneself is emotionally satisfying to some teenagers – overwhelmingly girls – who say they feel cleansed and in control when they cut their skin and bleed. Many liken the euphoria they feel to a narcotics rush. But the self-injurer is left feeling worthless and ashamed when the “rush” wears off. The “cutter” repeatedly reaches for a knife or shard of broken glass. Short-term counselling for teen “cutters” is offered at some psychiatric hospitals and clinics but sustained treatment hasn’t been available at residential facilities – or by frantic parents who can no longer handle their teens. Through exclusive access to Vista del Mar, with its ground-breaking self-injury treatment program forming a mesmerising, shocking framework, we explore “cutting”, the phenomenon silently stealing a piece of American youth. Cutters is a unique take on what life is like for the estimated 1 million American teens (80% female), and their families, fighting a brutal and shocking enemy: the urge to self-injure. Cutters does not rely on purely anecdotal style. Through a carefully-crafted blend of ongoing treatment sessions, heart wrenching personal “video diary confessionals”, family …
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