Date: July 8 2020
Summary: Self-harm is a mental illness that results in causing pain or harm to oneself
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In 2014, WHO found that 20% of children aged 15 confirmed having self-harmed within the last year. [1]
Self-harm is a mental illness that results in causing pain or harm to oneself. [2] Examples include restrictive and binge eating, cutting, hitting, scratching, burning, bleaching of an individual’s body, and other forms of self-mutilation. [3]
Self-harm generally pertains to non-life threatening actions individuals perform to negatively impact their health. This starts with actions like cutting and wrist slashing. [4] It can then lead to more severe acts of injuring human body tissue [5] and to indirect self-harming behavior such as eating disorders [6]
There are many types of self-harming behavior such as:
Further complicating discrete categories is that not all people that self-harm are suicidal. [7]
Zelko, Jacob. What Is Self-Harm. https://jacobzelko.com/07082020161946-self-harm. July 8 2020.
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[7] J. Quigley, S. Rasmussen, and J. Mcalaney, “Normative misperceptions of suicidal and self-harming behaviours in an undergraduate student population,” Apr. 2014.