Almost half the people seeking help from crisis centres for the prevention of self-harm and suicide are under the age of 18 - and one in five of them are 14 or younger.
The Irish Independent reports on findings from a new Maynooth University study - Generation anxiety - which also show that one in 10 of those aged 14 and under, reported self-harming with alcohol.
The first service-based study of its kind in Ireland on self-harm focussed on 823 people who, over a 15 month period, contacted centres in Dublin, Limerick and Tipperary run by Pieta House.
Adolescent girls are the most at risk but Cindy O'Connor From Pieta House says that the fact that more people are willing to seek help is a move in the right direction:
