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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4 CURRENT ARTICLES
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- The Relationship Between Perceived Stress, Impulsivity, Executive Dysfunction and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Thoughts Among Chinese College Students: A Gender Difference Studyby Lihua Zhou on May 8, 2024
CONCLUSION: This study revealed different influence factors for NSSI thoughts in male and female college students. NSSI thoughts in males were more likely associated with executive dysfunction while in females were due to recently perceived stress.
- A study on the association between prefrontal functional connectivity and non-suicidal self-injury in adolescents with depressionby Yan Guo on May 7, 2024
CONCLUSION: Adolescents with depression showed decreased FCs of the prefrontal cortex with multiple brain regions, and some of these FCs were associated with the NSSI frequency within 1 year. This study provided neuroimaging evidence for the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying adolescent depression and its comorbidity with NSSI behavior.
- Neural mechanism of non-adaptive cognitive emotion regulation in patients with non-suicidal self-injuryby Author Nan Lang on May 7, 2024
CONCLUSIONS: People with NSSI are more inclined to adopt non-adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies. Rolandic operculum is also abnormally active. Abnormal changes in the rolandic operculum of them are associated with non-adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies. Changes in the excitatory and inhibitory neurons provide hints to explore the abnormalities of the neurological mechanisms at the cellular level of them. Trial registration number NCT04094623.
- The role of cognitive disengagement syndrome in non-suicidal self-injury among adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorderby Beyza Ergül on May 3, 2024
CONCLUSIONS: CDS is associated with several relevant factors, indirectly relating it to self-harm in ADHD. CDS increases the vulnerability to mental health changes that could lead to NSSI in adolescence with ADHD.