Types of Self-injury

Self-injury, self-inflicted violence, self-injurious behavior or self-mutilation is defined as a deliberate, intentional injury to one’s own body that causes tissue damage or leaves marks for more than a few minutes which is done to cope with an overwhelming or distressing situation. Statistics show that...

Signs and Symptoms of Self-injury

Patients who self-injure can be as young as 12-years-old and can continue well into adulthood. More and more, kids are learning about the means and methods of how to induce self-injury to help control their emotional pain. Cutting, for instance, is the most common because it can be easily covered up. It’s...

Self-Harm

Most addictions stem from a conscious or subconscious desire to ease pain, but what happens when the addiction itself involves the infliction of pain? Injuring yourself physically in an effort to relieve psychological pain seems like a contradiction. Yet for many, self-injury escalates into an addictive...