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Griffiths, M.D. 
ORCID: 0000-0001-8880-6524,
2015.
A brief review of self-asphyxial risk-taking behaviour in adolescents.
Education and Health, 33 (3), pp. 59-61.
ISSN 0265-1602
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Abstract
Adolescence is often viewed as a time for experimentation and risk-taking behaviour. For instance, when I was a teenager, my friends and I used to occasionally play a game that we called ‘Headrush’ where we would have our breathing temporarily stopped by someone holding onto our chests after a deep expiration and hyperventilation (so that we could not breathe). It induced feelings of light-headedness and dizziness followed by temporary unconsciousness (usually lasting 10 to 15 seconds). I did it twice and on both occasions I felt as though I had lived a whole other life while I was unconscious. I cannot remember exactly why I had engaged in such a potentially life-threatening behaviour except that all my friends were doing it.
| Item Type: | Journal article |
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| Publication Title: | Education and Health |
| Creators: | Griffiths, M.D. |
| Publisher: | Schools Health Education Unit (SHEU) |
| Place of Publication: | Exeter |
| Date: | 2015 |
| Volume: | 33 |
| Number: | 3 |
| ISSN: | 0265-1602 |
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences |
| Record created by: | EPrints Services |
| Date Added: | 28 Oct 2015 10:34 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Jun 2017 13:55 |
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/25939 |
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