Non-Suicidal Self-Injury

In Tony Dokoupil’s article about “the suicide epidemic” He talks about how suicide is the highest rate of “injury death” in the US and how the CDC believes that is surpasses the number of deaths from car crashes. He also goes on to quote Ralph Nader saying, “we have become our own greatest danger” (par 16). Suicidal thoughts and tendencies are also a heightened risk that could lead to serious injury or even death. For some self harm could be severely cutting or scratching their skin as well as burning or puncturing their skin with foreign objects, but others slam themselves into walls, hit things, or bang their head against something. All these things could be potentially dangerous because of the risk of brain damage, broken bones, and severe bleeding. Each of these things could either cause death, or hospitalization. Sometimes people also get addicted to self harm the way others get addicted to nicotine or drugs, if they go for long periods of time without hurting themselves in a way they deem fit they start going into withdrawals. However physical risks aren’t the only types of

The type of self-harm under consideration in this particular article is called NSSI which stands for, non-suicidal self-injury. The name for this

I wanted to know more about NSSI, so I did googling to find the definition of NSSI that being “Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is the deliberate, self-inflicted destruction of body tissue resulting in immediate damage, without suicidal intent and for purposes not culturally sanctioned.” (Selfinjury)

Deliberate and repeated self-injuries are so common among adolescents that researchers have come to treat this phenomenon as a disorder—one that originates during adolescence. The DSM-V classification lists it as an independent nosological entity which takes on the form of deliberate self-mutilating without suicidal intentions (Nonsuicidal Self-Injury, NNSI). To better characterize their specific nature, six criteria have been distinguished. Criterion A refers to a specific frequency of self-destructive behaviors—for the disorder to be diagnosed, an individual must have engaged in deliberate self-injury (without suicidal intentions) on at least five days over the past year. Criterion B catalogs several effects of self-injury, at least one of

Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a behavioral problem that happens when a person intentionally harms themselves repeatably by damaging and mutilating skin by cutting, burning, or hitting, etc., without the purpose of committing suicide. NSSI was often viewed as a symptom of personality disorder, like borderline personality disorder since it involved self-injury behavior that would lead to suicide (Zetterqvist, 2015). However, in recent studies, people who did non-suicidal self-injury did not have borderline personality disorder (Zetterqvist, 2015). The issue revolving around NSSI is the fact that even though NSSI is done without the intentions of committing suicide, studies have shown that the behavioral problem is a possible risk factor

I used to be a cutter… but shh, don’t tell. Society didn't allow me to express my pain that way…Today’s society refuses to acknowledge many problems that teens deal with. People would rather believe in ‘happily ever after’ than face the truth, children are suffering. While it may seem to others that the problems are made up, its very real to the one dealing with them everyday. This suffering can leave permanent scars, and damage (if not ruin) their future. By remaining ignorant, self harm becomes more and more common, but at what cost? If educators and medical personnel were to be more educated on self harm and how to deal with it, teens and young adults would be more comfortable asking for help. Getttig rid of the stereotypes that

Psychology is the scientific study of the human mind and its functions, especially those affecting behavior. Past occurrences may cause someone to act in a certain way, especially within social situations. Deliberate Self-Harm (DSH) is a behavior in which a person commits an act with the purpose of physically harming themselves with or without real suicidal intent. Self-harm is most often related to going through trauma in childhood rather than as an adult. There are many reasons why people are known to self-harm; a lot of the time it is to help feel the pain they are feeling on the inside in another way. One of the reasons a person may self-harm is due to a high rate of childhood sexual or physical abuse within their past. Despite people’s beliefs, people who suffer from a self-harm disorder are not doing it for attention. If someone sees cuts or scars on someone’s wrists or legs, their immediate reaction is that it is from attention. In reality people who self-harm are not doing it for attention and a lot of the time these people take every precaution to hide the cuts to not be questioned about it. There has been research conducted on many aspects that tie into this behavior; research that involves both men and women, the outcomes of childhood abuse, and more. Together, these articles of research

In middle school, I thought of self harm every day. Luckily, I knew that self harm was a permanent fix to a temporary problem. I thought of doing self harm to myself because I was a victim of bullying. Having never been bullied before, I didn 't know how to cope with it at first. A group of five girls set out to make my life miserable, because they were jealous of the way I looked. From the start of 6th grade to the middle of 8th grade, there wasn’t a day that went by that I was not picked on. I had been pushed into lockers, tripped, and verbally abused, but I never asked for help. I didn’t think anyone could help. My classmates all saw it happening to me but they never said anything. I believe that they never stepped in, because they didn’t want it to happen to them. I started missing classes to hide out in the bathroom, and I soon started missing days because I would stay home. I missed so much that the school sent home attendance letters voicing their concern with the amount of absences I had.

“And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it. When Jesus made this declaration of the establishment of the church, he had taken his disciples into Caesarea Philippi, a city widely infamous for having erotic religious orgies to celebrate the pagan god Pan. Here in the epicenter of where, both figuratively and literally, all hell was breaking loose, Christ discloses the role of the church in response to the issues facing both the Christian community and society in general. Looking around at the world today, it can be understood why one would think that the gates of Hell have already prevailed. Thirty-five million men, women and children are held in slavery today, with a child being prepared for sexual exploitation every two minutes. One in every 122

For the past decades, knowledge about Non suicidal self-injury (NSSI) was only limited and because of that a lot of psychologists are being curious about it. In nineteenth-century, some psychiatrist describes the difference between the self-harm with or without the intent to die, between psychotic and those who were not and also between individuals who harm themselves in a serious or single act that can be lethal and those who harm themselves repeatedly. So we can say that in 19th century NSSI disorder are being introduced already. In spite of our lack of

A useful definition of self-harm is from Professor Keith Hawton (Hawton et al., 2006. p29). An act with a non-fatal outcome in which an individual deliberately did one or more of the following;

In junior high, I struggled with my self-image. I was constantly critiqued on grades, looks, and personality. I would come home almost daily and wonder if people were right. What if I was useless, ugly, and an idiot? I hated myself. But there was a point where it became too much for me, and I began to self-harm. Most people assume self-harm is for attention, but they’re wrong. Self-harm is a way people take their minds off their mental pain and compel their brain to focus on the physical pain. I struggled to hide my cuts from my friends and family. One day my mother noticed the cuts on my wrists and immediately forced me into counseling. The first few times I went I wouldn’t talk much about what I was feeling, usually, I would only answer questions

“According to a study published in the journal Pediatrics, an average of 1 in every 5 people has engaged in some form of non¬-suicidal self¬-injury, including but not limited to cutting, burning, hair pulling and punching” (Domanick). Apparently self-harm isn’t as uncommon we had originally been lead to be, if even 1 in every 5 people can self-harm, that just means society hasn’t been as observant as we like to believe. Anyone can self-harm, from distinguished politician, to a humble beggar on the streets,

Self-Harm is a mental disease in which a person causes deliberate harm to one’s body. It is normally not done as a way to commit suicide, but is a unhealthy way to cope with emotional pain, extreme anger, and frustration. When harmed a person's brain will tell its hormone glands to release endorphins. These endorphins are what give

Self-harm/ self-injury, which is defined as the practice of injuring yourself, i.e. cutting, in order to relieve emotional distress, is an alarming issue that has become an epidemic. According to Healthy Place “Each year, 1 in 5 females and 1 in 7 males engage in self-injury.” And within that group, “90 percent of the people who engage in self-harm, began during their teen or pre-adolescent years.” (Gluck, 2015) Self harm can include many different behaviors, such as : cutting the skin with razors and or other sharp objects, burning the skin, scratching the skin, intentionally bruising the body by hitting or hitting oneself against the wall , intentionally pulling hair out