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Title My Self-Harm Nightmare / Director: Cohen, James
Published Australia : ABC2, 2015
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Summary *Adult Themes**This program may contain content that may concern some viewers*Following the breakout success of 2HIGH and 2SEXY, ABC2 in collaboration with triple j, will spend a week undressing our national obsession with the body. With factual programming from Australia and around the world, covering topics from body building, to steroid use, to labiaplasty, to eating disorders and body dysmorphia, we'll examine why our shape is so tied to our happiness, and what social media and the explosion of the selfie is doing to our self confidence. Across the triple j network discussions will get under the skin of what's driving our fixation.Highlighting the soaring rates of eating disorders and self harm among young people, My Self Harm Nightmare explores the internet... where they go to share their secrets. Thousands of blogs and websites have emerged which encourage users to compete in weight loss and glorify self harm. They include images of emaciated bodies alongside tips on how to make yourself vomit and hide scars. In this intense, intimate and revealing film we hear from teenagers who've been sucked into this chilling online world. Through insightful and unflinching testimonies we hear how they became trapped in a cycle of self-hatred and self-punishment, doing unimaginable damage to their bodies. Some are taking the painful steps to recovery. Others are still compulsively logging-on. We also hear from the family of 13-year-old girl who killed herself after becoming involved with pro-self harm websites.#MySelfHarmNightmarePRODUCTION DETAILS:Minnow Films for Channel 4
Notes Closed captioning in English
Event Broadcast 2016-03-14 at 21:30:00
Notes Classification: MA
Subject Depression, Mental.
Eating disorders -- Psychological aspects.
Mental illness -- Treatment.
Muscle dysmorphia.
Self-injurious behavior in adolescence.
Australia.
Form Streaming video
Author Cohen, James, director