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What ever parent needs to know..Self-injury, self-harm, self-mutilation, cutting

post #1 of 13
7/26/05 at 1:20am
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Self-injury, self-harm, self-mutilation, cutting, burning, SI.

The forms and severity of self-injury can vary, although the most commonly seen behavior is cutting, burning, and head-banging.

Other forms of self-injurious behavior include:

carving

scratching

branding

marking

burning/abrasions
biting

bruising

hitting

picking/pulling skin and hair


Self-injury involves self-inflicted bodily harm that is severe enough to either cause tissue damage or to leave marks that last several hours. Cutting is the most common form of SI, but burning, head banging and scratching are also common. Other forms include biting, skin-picking, hair-pulling, hitting the body with objects or hitting objects with the body.
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post #2 of 13
7/26/05 at 1:21am
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This can start as early as middle school. Learning lots about all this plus, help Jimmy Co-worker find out that his daughter is a bruiser.
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post #3 of 13
7/26/05 at 10:13am
I did some of these until recently. I wish I had gotten help for it earlier. Thanks Annie!
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post #4 of 13
7/26/05 at 12:27pm
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You are welcome, hope more people look at this too.
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post #5 of 13
7/26/05 at 12:42pm
Thanks for posting this annie. That is some great information that i am sure not everyone would hvae thought could lead to more serious problems
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post #6 of 13
7/27/05 at 12:38am
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Thanks for looking at it Michele and you are so right can lead to lots more.
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post #7 of 13
7/27/05 at 12:49am
its scarey to think of what all can happen to our kids before our eyes, without us realizing it
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post #8 of 13
7/27/05 at 12:59am
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No Doubt.
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post #9 of 13
7/27/05 at 1:02am
Thanks for posting this.
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post #10 of 13
7/27/05 at 5:07am
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You are welcome Tammy.
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post #11 of 13
7/27/05 at 5:47am
Tony does the abrasion thing.

He uses his ruler to rub over and over until he bleeds. How on earth can anyone do that, the friction must burn like crazy. I don't know if he actually creates enough heat to burn the skin which then cracks, or it the friction just cuts the skin. (like there is any just about it)

One of his teachers caught him about to cut himself and told us, he had taken the razor blade out of his pencil sharpener.

Thank goodness he seems to have stopped, hopefully seeing the counciller every week is starting to show some results.
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post #12 of 13
7/27/05 at 8:04pm
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Maree the kids are in a trace and do not feel the pain at all. Yes weekely therapy helps Alisha a lot too. Glad he is doing so much better with this.
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post #13 of 13
9/28/05 at 12:17pm
Kirstie-Raie would feel everything when she cut .. it was the pain she craved .. made her "feel" something. But she stopped after onlya few months. WIth her it was more of a "trendy" thing to do to release the pain inside.
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