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Self injury or harm Symptom Report

Self injury, also known as self harm, self injurious behavior, or self mutilation, can be defined as the deliberate, direct injury of one's own body that causes tissue damage or leave marks for more than a few minutes and that is done in order to deal with an overwhelming or distressful situation. Read more...Click to read more below


What we've learned

Symptom Severities

Self injury or harm severity pie chart

Treatments Patients Take For Self injury or harm

Treatments Patients Take For Self injury or harm
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Individual Therapy
3 5% Individual Therapy: 5%
Church
1 2% Church: 2%
Lorazepam
1 2% Lorazepam: 2%
Naltrexone
1 2% Naltrexone: 2%

Report created on March 21, 2010.