Non-Suicidal Self-Injury-Self-Harm
Nonsuicidal self-injury, often simply called self-injury, is the act of deliberately harming your own body, such as cutting or burning yourself. It’s typically not meant as a suicide attempt. Rather, this type of self-injury is a harmful way to cope with emotional pain, intense anger and frustration.
While self-injury may bring a momentary sense of calm and a release of tension, it’s usually followed by guilt and shame and the return of painful emotions. Although life-threatening injuries are usually not intended, with self-injury comes the possibility of more-serious and even fatal self-aggressive actions.
Getting appropriate treatment can help you learn healthier ways to cope.
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: WP137
Diagnosis: Self-Harm (Cutting-Self-Mutilation)
US Patients:
World Patients: In 2010, 880,000 deaths world-wide from self-harm
Sex Ratio: B;G5-ages 12-15
Age Onset: 14-24 years old average
Brain Area: Beta endorphins in the brain may reward self-harm after the act
Symptoms: intentional self-injury to bodily tissue, without intent for suicide;
Progression: Chronic pot users may self-harm
Causes: childhood abuse leading to temporary relief from intense feelings, from trauma, emotional or sexual; 30% of autistic children
Medications:
Therapies: avoidance strategies; Dialectical Behavior Therapy is often used; helping find alternative behaviors under stress
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- Impulsive-addictive-compulsive Types of Non-suicidal Self-injury: A Case Seriesby Sowparnika C Elango on January 22, 2025
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- A meta-analysis of the relationship between anxiety and non-suicidal self-injury based on knowledge graphsby Jieyao Shi on January 21, 2025
CONCLUSION: There is a significant correlation between anxiety and NSSI, which is a possible risk factor for NSSI. However, due to limitations of the design type, quantity, and quality of the included study, further research is needed on the causal relationship between anxiety and NSSI. Furthermore, we show that using knowledge graphs is an effective approach to retrieve literature for meta-analysis.
- Negative efficacy of antidepressants in pharmacotherapy of child and adolescent depressionby Min Xu on January 20, 2025
Antidepressants are the main drugs used to treat depression, but they have not been shown to be effective in the treatment of child and adolescent depression. However, many adolescent depression treatment guidelines still recommend the use of antidepressants, especially specific serotonin re-uptake inhibitors. Previous studies have suggested that antidepressants have little therapeutic effect but many side effects, such as switching to mania, suicide, and non-suicidal self injury (NSSI), in the...
- Non-suicidal self-injury disorder as a possible mental illness category and the Hungarian adaptation of a questionnaire developed to measureby Melinda Reinhardt on January 19, 2025
Bevezetés: A DSM-5 (Mentális zavarok diagnosztikai és statisztikai kézikönyve, 5. kiadás) „További kutatásokat igénylő állapotok” fejezetében szereplő „Nem szuicidális önsértési zavar” a nem öngyilkossági szándékkal történő önsértés súlyos formája. Az egyelőre tudományos tesztelés alatt álló diagnosztikai kategória érvényességét számos kutatás megerősítette, kiemelve, hogy más mentális zavarhoz társulva erőteljesebb tünetképződést és pszichoszociális funkcióromlást idéz elő. Célkitűzés:...