I'm not sure but I think you need to be really careful to keep seperate the reasons why you and we hurt ourselves from what this child is doing to get attention. At a young age she wants attention and has figured out she can get it if something is wrong, I think that is a different thing from self harm. I'm not saying that there isn't something wrong with her that she is so clingly and wants attention so much that she will pick scabs but I don't think she is self harming in the way that we would define it. Also you can't pull a tooth until it's very loose, she just wouldn't have been able to remove it unless it was very nearly ready to come out so that isn't as worrying as it would first seem. And picking scabs is human nature!
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