Offers a list of treatment agencies across the USA, as well as dates for lectures and workshops. ... We also believe that self-injury is not an addiction over which one is powerless for a lifetime,

Self-Injury is known by many names, including self-abuse, self-mutilation, deliberate self-harm, parasuicidal behavior.

THEN I FOUND OUT WHAT AN ADDICTION CUTTING REALLY IS! I CONTINUED TO CUT. MY CUTTING PROGRESSED FROM ONE ... Self-Mutilation is the act of harming ones body without the intent of suicide.

It's called many things -- self-inflicted violence, self-injury, self-harm, parasuicide, delicate cutting, self-abuse, self-mutilation (this last particularly seems to annoy people who self-injure).

Connection between borderline personality and self-mutilation. A lot of BPD people have this addiction.

What are the types of Self-Mutilation? ... Three out of four people who suffer from eating disorders or depression fall into the addiction of self-injury.

Long misunderstood by outsiders, self-injury (also known as self-mutilation and self-abuse) is finally being taken seriously, and a growing crop of books, television programs, and even a recent...

Published this month in the journal Pyschiatric Services, researchers report a previously uncharted link between self-mutilation and sexual risk. ... Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs

12-step fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other, that they may solve their common problem and help others recover from physical self-mutilation.

or drawing blood, is in itself the goal." Cutters then develop an "addiction" to this method of exchanging physical pain for emotional pain. ... Self-mutilation can be visually shocking --