General SI What is SI?
It is the commission of deliberate harm to one's own body. The injury is done to oneself, without the aid of another person
Why?
Escape from emptiness, depression, and feelings of unreality.
Providing relief: when intense feelings build, self-injurers are overwhelmed and unable to cope. By causing pain, they reduce the level of emotional and physiological arousal to a bearable one.
Escaping numbness: many of those who self-injure say they do it in order to feel something, to know that they're still alive.
Maintain a sense of security or feeling of uniqueness
Preventing suicide
Expressing emotional pain they feel they cannot bear
Expressing or coping with feelings of alienation
Validating their emotional pain -- the wounds can serve as evidence that those feelings are real
Continuing abusive patterns: self-injurers tend to have been abused as children.
Punishing oneself for being "bad"
Diverting attention (inner or outer) from issues that are too painful to examine
Exerting a sense of control over one's body
Forms
Cutting
Burning
Breaking of ones bones
Scratching
Picking at scabs..so that they will not heal
Head Banging
Be advised these are just examples there are more forms out there
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