WHAT IS TEENAGE SELF-HARM
- Cutting, severely scratching your skin, burning or scalding yourself, hitting yourself or bangin your head, punching things or throwing your body aginst objects, sticking object to your body, intentionally preventing wounds from healing, swallowing poisonous objects.
- Simply a way that many use to rid themselves of stress or pain or whatever it may be.
- Most people who self harm try to do this secretly.
- Affects relationships with friends and family, ultimatley leaving them feeling lonely and trapped.
- A long term self-injuer have a much higher risk of suicide.
- Like an addiction to a particular drug, the endorphin "high" provides fast-acting relief for adolescents from their emotional distress and all other stressors in their lives.
Teenage Self-harm facts
- 43% of people know someone that has self-harmed.
- 1 in 10 people have harmed by the age 16.
- Self-harm does not make you suicidal or emo.
- Over 3 million people in the US have self-harmed or still do.
- Most common from caucasian females who come from intact middle- to upper- class families
- About 25 percent of self-injurers have a history of eating disorders, as well as an overlap with risky drinking and unsafe sex.
- Some self-Injurers suffer from a chronic yet treatable emotional peroblems, like depression, or anxiety.