Cutting and self injury

[bigbaldguy]

I recently had a young patient who was a "cutter" meaning she deliberately cut herself repeatedly as a means of dealing with her stress. This prompted me to do a little research on the subject. After reading another post here that brought up the topic I thought I'd share a link with you all. I encourage everyone to read through it as this is something we will all come into contact with at some point.

http://www.focusas.com/SelfInjury.html

 

[ITBITB13]

I get these patients almost on a daily basis. ^^^ that is some good stuff. I really like the resources on the side of the page, especially the door of hope for teens program. I will definitely be mentioning that to my female patients from now on.

 

[Aidey]

Big logical fail in your post. While self injury is more common in teenage girls there are significant numbers of males and adults also affected.

 

[ITBITB13]

Big logical fail in your post. While self injury is more common in teenage girls there are significant numbers of males and adults also affected.

True. 98% of my psychiatric calls are females. Unfortunately, that site I mentioned is focused on teenage girls. Although I can only suggest this service to teenage girls, I will also be sure to inform all my male/adult patients that there are many helpful resource programs online that could be of great help. I guess I shouldn't have left that out on my previous post.

 

[Jon]

Interesting point. I ran into this recently myself.