Samar Samir
Posted on: Tuesday 27 September 2022 – 12:10 | Last update: Tuesday 27 September 2022 – 12:10
Self-harm is any behavior in which an individual causes harm to themselves, usually as a way to help deal with difficult or painful thoughts and feelings, often taking the form of cuts, burns or overdose, and hurting is often the most common form self-harm More than 80% of people who self-harm choose this method.
The following are some of the factors that can make an individual more vulnerable as published by the Times of India website.
You suffer from a mental health disorder
This can 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 diseases, 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 impulsiveness, affect how a person feels about themselves, negatively affect their relationships with others, may experience extreme mood swings, and feel uncertain about how they see themselves, often they act impulsively or recklessly.
-Depression
It is one of the most common mental illnesses and 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
Disorder characterized by failure to recover after experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event, the condition can persist for months or even years, with triggers that can bring back memories of the trauma accompanied by severe emotional and physical reactions, symptoms can include nightmares, flashbacks, avoidance of situations that repeat the trauma and increase of reactivity With stimuli, anxiety or depressed mood.
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