When a school counselor called Vanita Halliburton to tell her that her son was cutting, she thought he was cutting school. “I mean I was clueless about what she was talking about,” she says. “And I said, ‘I don’t understand.’ And she said, ‘It’s a kind of self-harm. He’s cutting his wrists.’” That was in […]
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Paige Skinner is a freelance journalist who has been published in The New York Times, TIME, Teen Vogue, Dallas Observer and more. She enjoys chocolate milkshakes for breakfast.