self harm addiction
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This presentation focuses on Self-Injurious Behavior and its addiction. Graphic Content.TRANSCRIPT
SAMANTHA STILES
What is Self Harm and what does
it includes: The act of deliberately harming your own body; a unhealthy way to cope with uncomfortable feelings and emotions.
Cutting/ Burning self
Picking at skin/scabs
Pulling Hair (not Trichotillomania)
Banging Head
Hitting/ Biting self
Biting Self
Eating inedible objects (not Pica)
Eating Disorders
SHAME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toOKvG9li3c&list
=PLyfbgillDoa2qQJ98UUnws_OCc-HDTAFa
Why?
Why? • Intense emotions, such as, anger, anxiety, or depression
• Abuse• Low self esteem• Self Punishment• Numbness; to feel alive• Lonely• A combination of all these and some more• Sometimes this question is never answered
Why?The most important thing to know is all addictions are started for a reason, and that reason could be different from the other person suffering from the same addiction.
Addictive Disease Model
Self Harm
Behavior andEnvironmentModel
Self-Harm
Academic Model of Addiction
Self Harm
Diathesis-Stress Theory of Addiction
Self-Harm
STATISTICS
• Females comprise 60 percent of those who engage in self injurious behavior
STATISTICS• Each year, 1 in 5 females and 1 in 7 males
engage in self injury
• 90 percent of people who engage in self harm begin during their teen or pre-
adolescent years• Nearly 50 percent of those who engage in
self injury activities have been sexually abused
• About 50 percent of those who engage in self mutilation begin around age 14 and
carry on into their 20s• Approximately two million cases are
reported annually in the U.S
CONSENQUENCES
•Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death among Americans.•More than 38,000 people died by suicide in 2010.•More than 1 million people reported making a suicide attempt in the past year.•More than 2 million adults reported thinking about suicide in the past year.•Most people who engage in suicidal behavior never seek health services.
•Suicide costs society approximately $34.6 billion a year in combined medical and work loss costs.•The average suicide costs $1,061,170.(CDC cost estimates based on 2005 data. Refers to people age 10 and over.)
COSTS TO SOCIETY
ESTIMATES ARE THAT ABOUT ONE PERCENT OF THE TOTAL U.S. POPULATION, OR BETWEEN 2 AND 3 MILLION PEOPLE, EXHIBIT SOME TYPE OF SELF ABUSIVE BEHAVIOR
• the number of cases is on the rise
• without treatment, many who begin cutting themselves as
teens will continue the behavior well into their adult
years
Two of the most alarming facts about teen cutting are these:
Dialectical Behavioral
Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral
Therapy
Individual or Group
Psychotherapy
Treatment
THANKS FOR WATCHING AND LISTENING, I REALLY HOPE EVERYONE LEARNED SOMETHING. MAINLY, SELF HARM IS A REAL ADDICTIVE ISSUE THAT IS OVERLOOKED AS THE PROBLEM RATHER THAN A SYMPTOM.
References
Inaba, D., & Cohen, W. E. (1990). Uppers, Downers, All Arounders: Physical and Mental Effects of
Psychoactive Drugs (Updated and repr. 1990]. ed.). Ashland, Or.: Cinemed.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: DSM-5. (5th ed.). (2013). Washington, D.C.:
American Psychiatric Association.
Argarwal, L. J., Berger, C.E., Gill, L. (2011). Naltrexone for Severe Self Harm Behavior: A Case Report.
The American Journal of Psychiatry, 168 (4), 436-438.
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?articleid=1060907
Suicide: Consequences. (2012, September 24). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Retrieved October 10, 2013, from
http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/suicide/consequences.html
Gluck, S. (2012). Self Injury, Self Harm Statistics and Facts.
http://www.healthyplace.com/abuse/self-injury/self-injury-self-harm-statistics-and-facts/