Category: Self-Harm
The Good Therapy Blog
October 13th, 2010 |
One might imagine that youth being treated for an eating issues are more often referred to therapy and counseling for additional harmful behaviors than those teens not being seen by a doctor. But a startling report from Stanford University Medical Center indicates that most youth seen by physicians for eating issues are not asked about self-injury behavior. Intake questionnaires include questions about cigarettes and alcohol, but fewer than half of the patients in the study were asked about harmful behaviors like cutting... Read More
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October 1st, 2010 |
Byron tried hard to please but his anger got in the way
Byron’s anger terrified him. He did everything he could to avoid feeling it and showing it when it washed over him. He wanted to die of shame every time he saw his girlfriend’s fear and distress. He didn’t intend to hurt or scare her. She was the one good thing in his life and he would do anything to keep her. Byron’s anger was inexplicable to him. He didn’t feel it coming on and by the time it was evident, it was too late. Beverly was already anticipating something awful. Anger turned to shame and self-castigation. Byron flogged... Read More
September 30th, 2010 |
A GoodTherapy.org News Summary
In a new report published in the Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, researchers assess 19 individual papers spanning ten years and four countries to assess how well medical staff is prepared for dealing with patients admitted for injuries that were self-inflicted. Most common were patients who had cut themselves or who had attempted to commit suicide. The study concluded that hospital staff, especially the nurses responsible for direct care of patients, were inadequately... Read More
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September 9th, 2010 |
Where Does this Behavior Come From?
Cutting is the physical expression of hidden mental pain. Oftentimes, children start cutting when their mental pain reaches a level that they can no longer deal with. While some children may find positive ways of coping with such pain, others seek negative coping methods including self-harm or drug use. Mental pain can be the result of built-up stress, past traumatic events, hurt feelings, rejection by peers, or abandonment by significant others and other life stressors.
Is My Child Just Trying to Get Attention?
There is an easy way to tell if your child... Read More
September 8th, 2010 |
Radiologists are helping to treat patients with psychological and emotional needs, due to a disturbing and less-common form of self-harm known as “self-embedding.” With self-embedding, a person inserts a foreign object under their skin through an existing (or created) wound. Objects include anything small enough to fit, including small pieces of metal (e.g. staples), wood, plastic, stone, crayon, glass, graphite (pencils), and others. Radiologists help to locate and remove items that have been self-embedded, but... Read More
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September 7th, 2010 |
Most of us are aware that communication and trust are key ingredients in any relationship, yet these pivotal ingredients are often negatively impacted by the vestiges of a traumatic experience.
Someone who has survived a traumatic event often struggles both with expressing her/himself and also with listening in an active manner. Active listening requires a certain amount of concentration as well as the absence of hypervigilance. However, post-trauma most people’s concentration level is below their pre-trauma baseline and their level of hypervigilance is higher than their pre-trauma baseline.... Read More
September 3rd, 2010 |
A GoodTherapy.org News Summary
Two recently published items illustrate the need for greater cultural sensitivity, awareness, and customized attention with the realm of psychological care. One, a report from Britain’s Royal College of Psychiatrists, found that young, black women were at an increased risk of self-harm over other segments of the population. The second article, also from England, details how a new social intervention program is attempting to help... Read More
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August 16th, 2010 |
In the United States, rural areas tend to have higher rates of suicide than do urban areas. A new study, presented at the American Psychological Association’s annual conference, indicates that gender and culture also influence suicidal behavior. In the U.S., women and girls engage in more suicidal behavior, but more men die of suicide. Worldwide, different cultures have their own gender differences when it comes to suicidal behavior, often including that different types of self-harm are... Read More
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August 5th, 2010 |
Lots of depressed people tell me they want to stop their "self-destructive behavior,” because it is causing them to be depressed. Sometimes they are referring to an addiction, other times they mean cutting, burning or hurting their bodies. Most of the time it is about choices they regret, such as occasional (not addictive) overeating, over-committing themselves to projects, or getting involved in relationships with partners who hurt them or disappoint them.
I don’t believe that the motivation for any of this comes from wanting to hurt oneself. I believe these things happen when people are... Read More
February 3rd, 2010 |
A GoodTherapy.org News Summary
Though hospitals are able to treat clients who have engaged in suicide or self-harm attempts with specific and effective treatment and care, such clients are often released from hospitals with little to no guidance on how to proceed towards a more mentally healthy road, including therapy referrals. The mental health group SANE is calling for better training and understanding of mental health resources among general... Read More
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January 26th, 2010 |
A GoodTherapy.org News Summary
Rates of diagnoses of various mental health concerns may prove alarming to many clinicians and others in the mental health fields, and when such diagnoses affect children, the alarm may be especially prominent. A significant issue in terms of client safety and well-being, self-harm usually grabs the attention of therapists and mental health workers, and self-harm among children is a major concern which many modern protocols and techniques work towards preventing... Read More
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September 10th, 2009 |
The process of delivering self-harm, whether in the form of cutting, burning, abstaining from food, or any number of individual manifestations, can present difficult challenges for young people and their families. Often developed as a way to cope with mental health issues, self-harm occurs in a significant population of adolescents and teens, a fact which prompted some young people who have recovered from the habit to offer their support... Read More
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