Borderline Personality Disorder and Self-injury Issues
Self-injury
Self-injury is a behavior in which people deliberately harm their own bodies in some way to cope with overwhelming emotions. Self-injury frequently is an impulsive act. You may become upset and spontaneously seek a way to hurt yourself, recklessly doing damage to their body. Other times, self-injury may be inflicted in a controlled, methodical manner. You may even plan it in advance, taking steps to avoid detection and to prevent infections. This act of behavior is not an attempt at suicide. With self-injury, the intent isn’t to die, but to inflict bodily harm. However, self-injury can accidentally result in suicide. Self-injury is most commonly associated with cutting disease. This involves making cuts or scratches on your body, enough to break the skin and make you bleed. Cutting can be done with any sharp object, including knives, needles, razor blades or even fingernails. Most frequently, the arms, legs and front torso of the body are the targets of self-injury. These areas can be easily reached and easily hidden by clothing. This doesn’t mean that other areas of the body are subjected. Some people don’t feel the pain when they are cutting, even when creating deep cuts. Others do find self-injury painful but welcome the pain as a punishment or as a distraction from emotional turmoil. Other types of self-injury include burning, poisoning, overdosing, breaking bones, carving in the skin, hitting or punching, piercing the skin with sharp objects, head banging, pulling out hair, pinching and biting. The most common are the cutting and the burning. Signs of this disease are hard to detect because people who injure themselves often try to keep their behavior secret. Most people who self-injure do not do it for attention, which is what most people who don’t cut think. Most people hide their marks because of shame (Cutting). Although the signs are hard to detect they include scars from cuts and burns, scratches or other wounds,
Self-injury is a behavior in which people deliberately harm their own bodies in some way to cope with overwhelming emotions. Self-injury frequently is an impulsive act. You may become upset and spontaneously seek a way to hurt yourself, recklessly doing damage to their body. Other times, self-injury may be inflicted in a controlled, methodical manner. You may even plan it in advance, taking steps to avoid detection and to prevent infections. This act of behavior is not an attempt at suicide. With self-injury, the intent isn’t to die, but to inflict bodily harm. However, self-injury can accidentally result in suicide. Self-injury is most commonly associated with cutting disease. This involves making cuts or scratches on your body, enough to break the skin and make you bleed. Cutting can be done with any sharp object, including knives, needles, razor blades or even fingernails. Most frequently, the arms, legs and front torso of the body are the targets of self-injury. These areas can be easily reached and easily hidden by clothing. This doesn’t mean that other areas of the body are subjected. Some people don’t feel the pain when they are cutting, even when creating deep cuts. Others do find self-injury painful but welcome the pain as a punishment or as a distraction from emotional turmoil. Other types of self-injury include burning, poisoning, overdosing, breaking bones, carving in the skin, hitting or punching, piercing the skin with sharp objects, head banging, pulling out hair, pinching and biting. The most common are the cutting and the burning. Signs of this disease are hard to detect because people who injure themselves often try to keep their behavior secret. Most people who self-injure do not do it for attention, which is what most people who don’t cut think. Most people hide their marks because of shame (Cutting). Although the signs are hard to detect they include scars from cuts and burns, scratches or other wounds,
Cited: “Cutting.” kidshealth.com. 26 March 2008. Reviewed by D’Arcy Lyness, PhD in September 2007. http://www.kidshealth.ord/teen/your_mind/mental_health/cutting.html “Cutting-Self-Injury, from the teen’s perspective.” eqi.org. 26 March 2008. http://www.eqi.org/cutting1.htm#Why%20People%20Cut “Teen Depression-Cutting Your Body.” Christina Sponias. 28 March 2008. http://www.EzineAarticles.com/?expert=Christina_Sponias