Emergency department visits for self-harm have spiked since the pandemic. Experts explain the psychology behind the behavior and how to overcome it. Megan walked the halls of her suburban Houston ...

Inflicting damage to the body, deliberately, defies every instinct for survival. Yet self-harm is common (an estimated 8 to 30 percent) among teens.[1] The actual damage to body tissue is often minor, ...

As many as one in six teenagers have self-harmed at some point in their lives. As well as being an indicator of emotional pain, self-harm is also the best-known predictor of death by suicide—yet ...

My first introduction to self-harm in autism was with headbanging. While headbanging is a relatively uncommon version of self-harm in the general population, for autistic individuals, headbanging is ...

One in ten Norwegian adolescents has engaged in deliberate self-harm without intending to commit suicide. For the first time, researchers have taken an in-depth look at the correlation between ...

Friends of young people who self-harm or have suicidal thoughts may need additional support to prevent negative outcomes on their own mental wellbeing, in addition to the support needed by young ...

BENGALURU: In what can be called a dangerous trend, one that everybody must pay attention to, there is a steady rise in ...

This research was conducted as part of a PhD project supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Centre for Society and Mental Health at King’s College London (ES/S012567/1), the ...

Content warning: this story includes graphic descriptions of dangerous self-harm behaviors. The Google-funded AI company Character.AI is hosting chatbots designed to engage the site’s largely underage ...

AS we continue our series on misunderstood mental health, as part of my month-long feature on Mental Health Awareness, today we’re focusing on self-harming behaviours. This is a topic often shrouded ...

Editor’s Note: This story contains details of self-harm that some readers may find upsetting or triggering. Help is available if you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or mental ...