The number of teenage girls hospitalised for self-harm injuries is surging.
For every 100-thousand girls aged between 13 and 19 – 300 are heading to emergency rooms, suffering overdoses, slashed limbs or other forms of deliberate self-harm.
According to an Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report that's an increase of one-third in the past eight years and is dramatically more than boys of the same age.
It's now the most common form of hospitalisation, ahead of even injuries caused by road accidents.
Experts have blamed the problem on intense academic pressure, changing family situations and a rise in alcohol and drug use.