When feelings of anger and depression become overwhelming, some teens may carve, scratch, or cut on their wrists, ... Self-injury and self-mutilation are not appropriate coping behaviors.

Long misunderstood by outsiders, self-injury (also known as self-mutilation and self-abuse) is finally being taken seriously, ... I find cutting myself on my wrists relieves some of the pain I feel.

I was really depressed and self-loathing. For me, it wasn't ... there are still some dark patches on her wrists, where she dug the deepest. Fiona says, "I have a little bit of a problem with that.

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).

Self Mutilation among teens Reply to this Comment ... I would not recommend a cutter to slap their wrists unless it is a last resort. I must say that I believe not being alone is one of

Self-mutilation, suicide attempts, and suicides are far too common in prison. ... We were not able to find any national or state-wide statistics on the prevalence of self-mutilation in prison.

The purpose of the present paper was to examine the differences in clinical features between self-cutters and self-burners, ... Of 201 subjects, 33 (16.4%) had cut their wrists or forearms at least once,

But the scale of this mutilation is unprecedented in Russia. ... Moscow, 6 July 2005 (RFE/RL) -- During the night of 26 to 27 June, hundreds of inmates at the Lgov jail slashed their wrists,

I Cry When Angel's Die ... oh Savannah, my darling, my love, i will not tell you how hurt i felt when my best friend did the same thing, ... i wish really bad that you were on MSN or AIM right now!

Self-Injury - Why Do I Keep Cutting Myself? “I Keep Cutting Myself and I Can't Stop!” What Is Self-Injury or Self-Mutilation? ... FINALLY, self-injury --