Samar Samir
Posted on: Tuesday, September 27, 2022 – 12:10 PM | Last update: Tuesday, September 27, 2022 – 12:10 PM
Self-harm is any behavior in which an individual causes harm to himself, usually as a way to help deal with difficult or painful thoughts and feelings, often taking the form of cutting, burning, or overdose, and wounding is often the most common form of self-harm More than 80% of people who self-harm choose this method.
The following are some of the factors that may make an individual more vulnerable, as published by the “Times of India” website.
Suffering from a mental health disorder
This may include depression, anxiety, borderline personality disorder and eating disorders. Mental illnesses, particularly depression, anxiety and alcohol use disorders, are known risk factors for self-harm.
Previous studies in adults have shown an association between suicidal behavior and chronic physical illnesses, such as asthma, type 1 diabetes, epilepsy and cancer.
Studies have confirmed that self-harm, called non-suicidal self-harm (NSSI), is not the same as attempting suicide, as suicide is a way to end a life, but self-harm is a coping strategy.
• Mental health conditions that can lead to indulging in self-injurious behavior are:
– personality disorder
It is a mental illness that significantly affects a person’s ability to regulate their emotions. Loss of emotional control can lead to increased impulsivity, affect how a person feels regarding themselves, negatively affect their relationships with others, they may experience extreme mood swings and feel uncertain regarding how Seeing themselves, they often act impulsively or recklessly.
-Depression
It is one of the most common mental illnesses, and it often causes severe symptoms that affect how a person feels, thinks, and copes with daily activities, such as sleeping, eating, or working, persistent feelings of hopelessness, pessimism, feelings of irritability, frustration, restlessness, and difficulty concentrating, remembering, or making decisions. Decisions, sleep problems.
Post-traumatic stress disorder
A disorder characterized by failure to recover following experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event, the condition may persist for months or even years, with triggers that can bring back memories of the trauma accompanied by severe emotional and physical reactions, symptoms may include nightmares, flashbacks, avoidance of situations that repeat the trauma, and increased reactivity With stimuli, anxiety or depressed mood.
