Self-Injury in Japan

Miri says that she wants to cut herself every day, but that she is much better than last year.

Conflicted
Miri says that she wants to cut herself every day, but that she is much better than last year. "I feel pain, of course," she says, "but I feel I am alive when I feel pain."

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