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Pilot Study Will Test New Treatment to Reduce Self-Harm in Borderline Personality Disorder

Studies have shown that dialectical behavioral therapy and mentalization-based treatment are effective for treating self-harm among people with borderline personality disorder. Dialectical behavior therapy teaches skills to manage emotions, tolerate distress, pay attention to what is happening in the here and now, and improve relationships.

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Inside a Cutter's Mind: Understanding And Helping Those Who Self-Injure

"The Haunting cover and the subtitle of this excellent book will help you understand and help those who self-injure. Cutting, burning, hitting, bruising, picking at one's skin, excessive hair pulling, intentionally interfering with healing and avoiding medical care are just some of the physical manifestations. This book is an excellent source of how to really understand and be helpful. It is very well balanced both to those who want to help, and those who self injure."

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Healing Touch

Myths About Self Injury

It is very easy to misunderstand self-injury if you do not suffer with the problem yourself. Many self injurers themselves do not understand why exactly it is that they cut themselves. Because of the nature of self injury, people tend to jump to very quick conclusions.

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Conference Transcript

What It Takes For You To Stop Self-Injuring and DBT For Treating Self-Injury

People self-injure, usually to regulate extreme negative emotions. It is often their only way to cope. It is the only way that they have learned, and so they keep coming back to it. It is obviously ineffective for having a reasonable quality of life, but it can work in the short-term for reducing emotional pain.

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Depression and Self Injury

Individuals Who Self-Injure Often Have Suffered Sexual, Emotional, or Physical Abuse

Suyemoto and MacDonald (1995) reported that the incidence of self-mutilation occurred in adolescents and young adults between the ages of 15 and 35 at an estimated 1,800 individuals out of 100,000. The incidence among inpatient adolescents was an estimated 40%.

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From Our Radio Show Archives

"The Dangerous Consequences of Eating Disorders"

It's a slippery slope of how eating disorders start innocently enough and how quickly extreme weight loss and exercise behaviors can become obsessions that spiral out of control. Guests and callers discuss how they developed anorexia and bulimia and the devastating impact these eating disorders have had on their lives.

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