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Nonsuicidal self -injury

Nonsuicidal self-injury or NSSI is indeed relatively common in the adolescent years of life. It is defined as directly harming your body by either repeatedly cutting or burning yourself but, without the intent of dying. Reports by clinicians, health professionals and teachers have noted a dramatic increase in NSSI in the recent years of study (Hoeksema 2011, p. 214). Individuals that engage in NSSI are at an increased risk for attempts at suicide. In the wikipedia article "Self-harm" [1], provides a substantial amount of knowledge on self-injury, especially the predicted causes. But, a nice addition to the information already there is to include another subheading under the 'Causes' heading specifically to the theories of NSSI functioning as of regulating emotion and influencing the social environment. Fore, people who engage in NSSI often report feeling the pain and seeing the richness of color in the blood alleviates their tension. As well, it draws support and sympathy from others (Hoeksema 2011 , p. 214) . This should be added because the information provided in the "self harm" article alone generalizes and categorizes this deliberate act of self injury to four predisposed causes of mental illnesses, psychological factors, genetics and drugs and alcohol. Directly excluding the possibility of eating disorders and personal satisfaction as a factor of causation, this separates the NSSI from its global definition of having no intent to be suicidal. Instead, it creates labels and brings on the assumption that the reason why someone is hurting themselves has to deal with the disapproval from others, your brain functioning, genetic factors and the abuse of substances; instead of an individual's way of effectively coping. As mentioned, this method of pain has been reported to calm a distressed individual. With longitudinal data lacking significantly in this subject, the current four causes are too biased to provide any basis of validity. All in all, incorporating another causes subsection (3.5 Personal Satisfaction) would align all possibilities together and provide more evidence for research on triggers for self injury, as it is definitely needed.

References

1. ^ "Self-harm". Causes. Retrieved 18 April 2014.

2. ^ Hoeksema, Susan. 2011. "Abnormal Psychology". New York, NY. McGraw Hills. p. 214. ISBN: 978-0-07-338278-4. Retrieved on 18 April 2014.

 Gatorbait18 (talk) 23:58, 19 April 2014 (UTC)