For six years, Judy Griffith squirted hot glue on her skin, slashed herself with scalpels, and burned her body with screwdrivers that she had heated up on her stove. Wounding herself was the only way she had found to pull herself out of her deep depression. Sexually abused as a child, Griffith, 43, had seen a string of therapists, but they hadn't done much. One molested her, making it hard for her to trust the others. She was desperate for help. Finally, one hot summer afternoon two years ago, Griffith sought solace from her computer. Sitting at a small table in her dining room in remote Roy, Utah, she typed "counselors" into a Web search engine. Back came just one Web site, which led her to Peg Burr, a California therapist who agreed to treat her through e-mail.
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