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2. Self Harm Alternatives: 7 Techniques That Actually Work

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   Try guided imagery. Be creative. Harm minimization. Takeaway. Westend61 / Getty Images. When painful or difficult emotions threaten to overwhelm you, self-harm can offer a way to: regain a sense ...

3. Cutting and Self-Harm: Warning Signs and Treatment - WebMD

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   This leads to hopelessness.”. Other emotional signs of self-harm include: Overwhelmed by feelings. Inability to function or decline in functioning at school or home. Inability to maintain stable ...

4. How to Help Someone Who’s Self-Harming - Healthline

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   encouraging open communication. educating yourself about self-harm. ensuring to check in with your loved one regularly. respecting your loved one’s boundaries. offering to help with alternative ...

5. Why Do People Cut Themselves? Reasons, What to Do, and More

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   Self-harm can be a way for a person to feel something when experiencing numbness or to distract themselves from depression or anxiety. Some people cut to create a wound that can symbolize their ...

6. What Is Self-Injury Disorder? - WebMD

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   Self injury, also called self-harm, self-mutilation, or simply cutting, is defined as any intentional injury to one's own body. Usually, self-injury leaves marks or causes tissue damage. Self ...

7. Self-Mutilation: Cutting, Burning -- Treatments and More - WebMD

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   Self-injury can involve any of the following behaviors: Cutting. Burning (or "branding" with hot objects) Picking at skin or reopening wounds. Hair -pulling (trichotillomania) Head-banging ...

8. How to Treat an Infected Wound Naturally: 7 Things to Try

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   6. Tea tree oil. Tea tree oil is a natural antiseptic that may also treat skin inflammation. However, tea tree oil based products can not be used for burns. You may apply diluted tea tree ...

9. When Scab-Picking, Cutting Becomes Addictive - WebMD

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   Cutting is often associated with other psychiatric illness, so addressing other disorders can help stop the self-harm, he says. SAFE offers a 30-day inpatient program for adolescents, and for ...