Word: self-harm
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...negative experiences throughout childhood and adolescence," write the authors of a study on victimization, published in the current issue of Archives of General Psychiatry. "The consequences associated with high and chronic victimization are manifold and include depression, loneliness, low self-esteem, physical health problems, social withdrawal, alcohol and/or drug use, school absence and avoidance, decrease in school performance, self-harm and suicidal ideation...
LEGAL RESTRAINTS Illegal immigrants who physically resist deportation from Spain will now have to wear straitjackets, ostensibly to prevent them from self-harm...
...therapy (DBT) as an important treatment for borderline-personality disorder in teens who cut themselves. I started self-injuring at age 9. My parents, friends and doctors first responded by treating it as a naughty behavior, then as a serious suicide risk. Even the doctors didn't understand what to do because the problem was not yet well understood. After seven hospitalizations, I found a DBT therapist who focused more on managing the intense emotions that triggered my impulses to self-harm and less on the actual acts of cutting, burning and bruising. I am a junior in college...
...attempts. "One cannot keep these detainees in this pattern, this situation, indefinitely," a senior official said. By then, the official number of suicide attempts was 32, though I knew it was actually far higher. The military kept the number low by labeling most attempted suicides as "manipulative self-injurious behavior" or "self-harm" incidents, a practice that became more frequent as time went on. In January 2005, the Pentagon disclosed that 350 "self-harm" incidents had occurred in 2003, including 120 "hanging gestures...
...hosts seminars to teach young people techniques to deal with their tormentors. At one recent event in London, 13 kids between 12 and 15 gathered in a church hall to share their experiences. Of the 13, four had been physically attacked and six had resorted to or were considering self-harm. At the seminar, the strategies to combat bullying included "fogging," in which children imagine they are surrounded by a dense mist that insults cannot penetrate, and the "broken record" technique, which teaches kids to say no to their tormentors without escalating the situation. Parents should look out for warning...