The most common form of self-harm is skin-cutting but self-harm also covers a wide range of behaviors including, but not limited to, burning, scratching, banging or hitting body parts, interfering with wound healing (dermatillomania), hair-pulling (trichotillomania) and the ingestion of toxic substances or objects. Behaviours associated with subst...
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Self-harm is not the same as attempted suicide. Only about a quarter of people seen in casualty with deliberately self-inflicted injuries have tried to kill themselves. It is a common misconception that the rest are simply 'attention seekers'. However, people who self-harm often believe this is the only way to express their distress as they are too...
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