Self-Harm
What you need to know and how someone could help.
What is Self Harm?
Also known as Self-injury, It's the act of purposely harming your own body, such as cutting or burning yourself. Most of the time its not meant as a suicide attempt, but as a self-injury to deal with emotional pain, lots of anger or frustration. Self-harm may bring a moment of released tension or calm state, its usually fallowed by guilt, shame, embarrassment, and return of painful emotions. With self-harm comes a greater possibility of more aggressive, fatal, and serious actions.
When should you get help?
Any of the Fallowing Actions
- Cutting yourself (such as using a razor blade, knife, or other sharp object to cut the skin)
- Punching yourself or punching things (like a wall)
- Burning yourself with cigarettes, matches, or candles
- Pulling out your hair
- Poking objects through body openings
- Breaking your bones or bruising yourself
For more information and guidelines on how to prevent self-harm or cutting click the button below.
Need Help?
Click above for help lines and Tips on how to deal with your own self-harm and how to help others who self-harm.
sources:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/selfharm.html
http://www.helpguide.org/mental/self_injury.htm
Published by: Iris Prochaska
9-23-2014
- About 50 percent of those who engage in self mutilation begin around age 14 and carry on into their 20's