Self-Harm
Self-harm refers to inflicting pain on yourself to relieve emotional despair. It...read more
Self-harm refers to inflicting pain on yourself to relieve emotional despair. It...read more
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Self-Harm mental disorder patients need to connect with families who can support them and never make them feel alone. While doing communicating with the person you can trust will make you realize that your life is important to your family and that they need you to live a happy life. Getting a counsellor's help will help you recognize your actual meaning in life and provide the tools to decrease your self-injury behaviour's intensity.
Self-Harm behaviour can be triggered when you can't cope with feelings like sadness, self-loathing, emptiness and guilt. When people can't express their feelings in words, they use the self-harm option to release their sadness and regret. Distracting from negative emotions and grief will improve your self-harm behaviour and make you realize that your healthy life is a gift from God and that you must take of yourself.
Recovering from self-harm behaviour can be possible, but you need the right support. You need to understand your emotion and accept the guilt, and it doesn't make any change by harming yourself. Recovering might be easier with the help of an experienced self-harm counsellor that makes your life easier to understand and heal your illness and grief.
Self-harm refers to inflicting pain on yourself to relieve emotional despair. It helps the individual to divert their attention and feel in control. Past experiences and feelings can lead to engaging in self-harm activities. People may have a sense of control for a short span, but it can lead to complications and affect overall health.
The types of self-harm that can endanger the individual and people around them are:
People who feel they are losing control of their life engage in self-harming activities such as burning, biting, and piercing the skin using unhygienic and sharp objects.
Most people who have a sense of inadequacy scratch and bite their skin. It allows them to feel in control. However, emotional instability leading to self-harm can affect health and overall functioning.
Consuming illicit drugs and alcohol helps the person forget about emotional pain. The temporary relief causes the person to repeat the behavior. Substance abuse can affect mental and physical health and deteriorate the quality of life.
The person exercises to a point where they can suffer from an injury. The person may collapse during the session, which can lead to a fatal injury.
The person purposely gets into physical fights and bangs the body with the wall, which can lead to a life-threatening injury.
People who engage in unprotective sex with multiple partners are at a higher risk of suffering from infections and related complications. Therefore, people with emotional instability want to engage in unprotected sex for physical pain.
The common causes that lead an individual to engage in self-harming activities are:
Individuals who have lived with emotional distress suffer from multiple mental health problems. They feel they cannot control anything in life. Self-harm helps them feel in control of their body.
People with a lack of emotional support may have intrusive thoughts that affect their behavior. Hence, they engage in self-harming activities.
Emotional distress and lack of support can lead to self-harm. The person purposely harms themselves as it helps them divert their attention.
The common causes that lead an individual to engage in self-harming activities are:
People with family and work-related pressure are at a higher risk of engaging in self-harming activities.
People with family responsibilities and financial instability suffer from loss of control, emotional distress, and low self-esteem, which leads to self-harm.
People with depression and PTSD are more likely to self-harm as a coping mechanism for emotional distress.
People with childhood sexual abuse and harassment may struggle to cope with emotional Lack of support leads to self-harming activities, which affects health and overall functioning.
The correlation between suicide vs self-harm is that most people who purposely hurt themselves physically are at a higher risk of having suicidal tendencies. However, some people only engage in self-harming activities to cope with emotional stress.
According to The National News, the specialists are concerned about Self-harm in UAE, as there has been a 42% increase in activities over the past ten years.
Emotional distress due to peer pressure and other reasons can lead to self-harm, which is an unhealthy way of coping with problems. People around the globe recognize march as a self-harm awareness month to enable individuals to recognize the problems, understand the causes and seek help. Individuals exhibiting signs of self-harm must seek professional help to avoid complications. Fitcy Health helps connect with a competent and reliable specialist for guidance regarding an effective treatment plan. Also, people who struggle with self-harm relapse must talk to a psychologist to prevent further complications.
People with fresh self-harm scars must cover them to prevent infection and related complications. The ways that have been proven effective in treating self-harming scars are:
Trichotillomania is a mental health condition in which the individual has an irrational urge to pull out the hair from the body. Self-ham anxiety can trigger trichotillomania. However, it is not categorized as a self-harming condition. The person suffers from impulse control which triggers anxiety.
Maladaptive behaviors interfere with the ability to function adequately in everyday life. Self-harm on hands can affect the overall functioning of the individuals. In severe cases, self-harm addiction can affect physical and mental health leading to multiple complications.
Individuals and caregivers who notice that a close family member is exhibiting signs of self-harm due to emotional distress must encourage them to seek professional help. Fitcy Health connects the person with a trained psychologist who can help with psychological assessment and treatment. The effective treatment options include:
The psychologist utilizes different approaches to communicate with the client. Counseling enables the client to understand the root cause of emotional instability and distress. Awareness about themselves permits the person to make a rational decision to promote well-being, functioning, and overall health.
Cognitive behavioral therapy enables the person to understand their feelings and the irrational ways they react to the situation. It allows the person to change their point of view. CBT aims to change negative feelings into positive ones to behave rationally.
Individuals with mental health conditions are at a higher risk of self-harm. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the cause of the condition. However, the person must visit a general physician or psychiatrist before taking medications.
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