Self-Injury

Self-injury is deliberate injury inflicted by a person upon his or her own body. Some scholars use more technical definitions related to specific aspects of this behavior. These acts may be aimed at relieving otherwise unbearable emotions, sensations of unreality and numbness. Self-injury is generally considered a social taboo. It is listed in the DSM-IV-TR as a symptom of borderline personality disorder and is sometimes associated with mental illness, a history of trauma and abuse, eating disorders, or mental traits such as low self-esteem or perfectionism. There is a positive statistical correlation between self-injury and emotional abuse.

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Related Links:

• American Self-Harm Information Clearinghouse
• Self-Injury.net
• Mayo Clinic

Recent Hope Cube Blog Entries For Self-Injury

• Hate life. Thu, July 17, 2008 - [view]
  Been gone a while ):I'm back to hating the shit out of life again. Really with I could die, or that one of these annoyances did, it would make things a lot easier. I cut myself a bit hoping it would make me feel better, I still feel lousy, if not even more aggravated with this life. 
• Yay! Mon, July 07, 2008 - [view]
  Well, to answer my past blog, I DID NOT cut! woot! anyway,my anime came out so i'm no longer upset about that. Uhm... I'm doing okay now. I think that's about it. Thanks for listening to me. FyreSakura 
• What A Low Night Sun, July 06, 2008 - [view]
  Hi everyone. It's been a while. Right now i'm in a very low rut. it's late and i'm having trouble falling asleep. i'm depressed, and am trying to avoid cutting myself. i've been so good too. i've been crying on and off for the past 2 hours. i even had a slight...idk, vision? fantasy? dream?... about when i would cut and how i wanna do it again. i'm doing okay tho, i'm basically just pms-ing because i've got major cramps and they're driving me insane. i know it's not really a good idea, but i took twice my recommended dosage of painkillers to see if it'll help me to fall asleep and/or kill the cramps. i did that before and i was fine, so i did it again. uhm... i'm really upset because i can't find the the new episode of my anime...
• Not again... Mon, June 16, 2008 - [view]
  I cut last night, ruining a three or four month spell of being cut-free. I hate it. I was so upset for no reason and I just didn't know what else to do. My mother tells me to jsut talk to someone, but that's hard to do when I usually only get like that once it's nighttime and everyone is in bed. I feel so alone. so isolated, like I have no one to turn to. I have to be off of my cell phone at 10:30 every night, so it's not like I can call someone. My boyfriend is currently in Michigan, wich stresses me out. When he goes up there with his dad, he smokes weed and drinks. I don't care about either one, beacuse I do them both too. But he does it in excessive amounts when he gets around his dad and all of his dad's friends. I just worry about him being safe. I worry th...
• I did it again. Tue, May 06, 2008 - [view]
  It's worse than I've ever done before. I have to wrap from my wrist to my elbow to cover it. What's even worse is that this is the second day in a row that I've done it at work. Why is it so soothing to watch my own blood fall?