Adolescents Who Self-Harm: Why Do They Do It and What Can Be Done?

  Today, increasingly more adolescents resort to self-harm to face difficulties in their lives. By self-inflicting physical harm (for example, through small cuts), they manage to lessen the psychological pain they experience. This reduces their feelings of anguish. In fact, self-harm could be seen as a behavior that exerts an intense narcotic effect on these individuals. Self-harm consists of an injury caused voluntarily by the person themselves. It’s voluntary and the goal is far from suicidal. It’s extremely important to differentiate self-harm from suicidal behavior. This is because the objective of self-harm is far from being to end one’s own…