Self-injury so often occurs in private, an important reason why solid statistics are hard to come by. But researchers estimate between 10 and 40 percent of adolescents, and up to 10 percent of adults, ...

Clinical factors such as previous self-harm and psychiatric comorbidity were more strongly associated with the risk for self-harm than demographic factors in individuals with substance use disorders ...

Important mental health history is often present in medical records but hard to find, especially when it is missing from the ...

Self-embedding is an extreme form of self-injury, in which people (typically adolescents) insert objects into their body parts to deliberately hurt themselves or mutilate their bodies without ...

Self-harm, known clinically as nonsuicidal self-injury, is a maladaptive way of coping with emotional distress — it provides momentary relief but doesn’t address underlying feelings. If someone you ...

Cases are being heard before courts in Italy and France, while the family of a Scottish teen is part of a lawsuit in the ...

Credit: Getty Images Improving perception of internal body states, or interoception, can help everyone better care for their own bodies. The Conversation — Did you know that anorexia is the most ...

When you hear "self-injury," what do you think of? As a self-harm researcher and expert in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), I've heard people say a lot of inaccurate things about self-injury.

My first introduction to self-harm in autism was with headbanging. While headbanging is a relatively uncommon version of self-harm in the general population, for autistic individuals, headbanging is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An increased disconnect from your body can make it easier to harm yourself, whether by disordered eating or suicide. Maskot/Maskot ...