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May is Mental Health Month, and what better time to examine one of the most troubling, least understood behaviors of individuals struggling with mental health issues—self-injury. Long associated with teenage girls and individuals with borderline personality disorders, the demographics and methods of self-injurious behavior are changing, and those who self-injure are emerging and documenting their struggles via the blogosphere.
This month’s E-News Exclusive examines the rise of nonsuicidal self-injury and consults experts who study it to help us better understand this phenomenon. Often veiled in secrecy out of shame and fear of the reactions from those who have little understanding of its intense emotional motivations, self-injury is a form of self-expression, but it’s far too dangerous to stay in the closet. It is treatable and deserves the attention of astute mental health professionals willing to understand and better identify its signs.
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 Bleeding to Stop the Hurt: The Rise of Self-Injury
By Lynn K. Jones, DSW
“I cut myself with razors because the pain in my chest is unbearable,” explains a 32-year-old anonymous woman on a self-injury blog. “Almost anything can set me off. Most of all, the desire to injure myself comes when I feel like I have failed at something or when I feel someone close to me is going to leave me. The need for intimacy in my life is great and, although I try to keep everyone at arm’s length, when I do let someone in, I feel as though I will be hurt. Cutting relieves the pain that nothing else can take away.” She says she has a master’s degree in social work and has been injuring herself for 17 years.
A professional woman in her 30s mutilating herself?
Long thought to be a behavior primarily seen in adolescent girls or people with borderline personality disorders, researchers are discovering a troubling reality. Self-injury seems to span most age groups, is seen in both sexes, and is not associated with any one diagnosis. Self-injury is “remarkably prevalent and woefully understudied,” according to the editors of a special issue of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology on self-injury.
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