Warning: This article contains information about suicide and self harm which may be distressing for some readers.
Self-harm is now so common among Aussie kids that at one school, young girls had formed a self-harm club.
Former teacher Rachel Downie found out about it through her website, Stymie, where children can make anonymous reports of harmful behaviour.
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"Not long ago a high school contacted me and said that they had found out that there were girls in Year 8 who actually had self-harming challenges, like a club," Downie tells Mamamia.