Understanding and Dealing with Depression by Keith Souter

Author:Keith Souter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Summersdale
Published: 2012-07-09T04:00:00+00:00

Why do people self-harm?

This is a complex area and individual sufferers cannot be neatly pigeonholed. Some people repeatedly self-harm by cutting or scratching themselves because it is a way of venting anger, but in an internalised manner rather than having tantrums or harming someone else.

Some people do it to punish themselves and gain some ease from their emotion by causing themselves pain.

Others self-harm with the intention of killing themselves. All overdoses are serious as are all thoughts of ending your life by dramatic means, like jumping off a building, hanging yourself or throwing yourself under a train.

KEY POINT

Overdosing is the most common type of self-harm, accounting for 80 per cent of cases.

Cutting is the second most common type, accounting for 15 per cent of cases.

1 in 3 people who self-harm will do it again the following year.

3 in 100 people who self-harm will eventually kill themselves.

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