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Have you ever heard the word 'selfish'? It is an Internet language, "the person who hurts your body." It is becoming fashionable to upload these pictures through SNS among young students.

Kang Min-woo is a reporter.

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As long as the younger generation uses the word SNS, "self-harm", the posts that hurt the body are poured out.

Only tens of thousands of related posts.

[Self-experienced student A: I have a bit of a cuff. uh? I guess I'm a little alive. Anxiety, tension I think these things have a calming effect.]

The frontline training site is also an emergency.

[Soon Chan Hwang / Director of Suicide Prevention Center in Seoul: We estimate that about 15% to 20% of the youths we have experienced this year are related to self-harm.]

[Roh Eun-sil / Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education's Professional Counselor: I feel that the age group is getting a little younger. More and more students are attempting to self-harm the upper grades of elementary school.]

According to the results of the National Mental Health Center, the proportion of suicide and self-harm patients among children and adolescents increased from 46 percent last year to 54 percent this year.

One of the reasons for self-harm is to forget the psychological and emotional pain with the pain that hurts your body.

[Self-experienced youth B: I think most of them are hurt in their hearts. I do not know why ... . I feel like my self-inflicted emotions burst out.]

Self-harming You may want to upload photos or videos to the SNS so that you can get up close and interested.

By self-extinguishing the stresses of study or friendship, once you get out, you can find stronger stimuli and lead to extreme choices.

However, even if you find out that you are self-inflicted, it is absolutely forbidden to hurt or persevere.

[Choi, Jeong-Won; / Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Psychiatrist, National Mental Health Center: The attitude of judging that you should not simply do this or criticizing it is rather a result of blocking the opportunity for children to express their difficulties can.)]

It is most important to find out the root cause of self-harm by help of professional counseling organizations.

If you do not have professional counseling right now, you can also get help from public institutions such as suicide prevention centers and mental health welfare centers.