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	Important Issues: Self Injury - some common issues
	Posted by sylvia on Saturday, January 17, 2004 (10:04:53) What is self injury? Self injury is deliberately harming ones own body. It can take many forms, cutting, burning, picking, hitting, pulling, punching, puncturing, drugs, alcohol, suffocating, eating disorders. Often these can be interchangeable.One stopping and the other beginning. Just as there can be many kinds of self injury there can be many degrees of self injury. The degree of self injury can be marked anywhere along a continuum from mild to severe. Survival Function Self Injury can include both emotional and physical injury to ones self. It can be a sign that a person is not coping with their surroundings or with a situation. Self Injury usually has meaning for the person, who usually has insight into why they are self injuring. It can be an important survival function, a means of surviving unbearable feelings and experiences for the person. The best way they know of coping. What self injury is to you There can be many reasons why a person self injures, some of the more common are: cutting/burning the bad out because you deserve it. making feelings go away (overriding feelings) to ground the body or conversely to dissociate from the body for the pain/blood Perception Just as self injury can perform many functions for individuals so it can be perceived by others to be many different things, often as being manipulative, suicidal or just attention seeking behaviour. Which it is usually not. It is sometimes the result of sexual, physical or emotional abuse, or it may be the result of surviving in an invalidating environment. Low self worth and body value play a varying role in self injury. source: Australian Self-Harm/Injury Education

		Posted by sylvia on Saturday, January 17, 2004 (10:04:53) (2812 reads)

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