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Essay on Self-Mutilation: A Coping Mechanism
Those who have under gone sexual abuse and other types of power abuse are involved in self harming activities as cutting which is a self wanted injury to self by using something sharp and pointed. The most common among them is that they want to hurt themselves and their bodies. Self-mutilation, or self-injury as all prefer to call it, is the deliberate damaging of body tissue without conscious intent to commit suicide. Just like with eating disorders, self-injury is used as a coping mechanism in life.
Whatever pain is inside of the person, whether it be from family problems, sexual or physical abuse, or emotional neglect, the feelings are unbearable and can only be released or "forgotten about" through the pain that comes from injuring one's self. The prevalence of self-injury is unknown because many cases go unseen and untreated, but it has been estimated that about 750 per 100,000 persons per year have problems with self-injury. (Rates of 34% and 40.5% have been reported for people diagnosed as having multiple personality disorder and bulimia.) Self-injury usually begins in late childhood and early adolescence, and although for some it becomes a chronic problem, most self-mutilators do not continue the behavior after 10-15 years. However, self-injury can be a chronic problem if the situation that triggers the victim to cut or hurt them continues to stay in their lives.
Definitions: The most commonly suffered by self-mutilation are normally developed children and teenagers. This is a commonly developed phenomenon among the people with the psychiatric or bringing up disabilities or other special people such as inmates SIB is interlinked with significant biological diseases or set of symptoms. Some people also do the act in order to get attention, for communication. Effective measures taken can identify and remedy the problem and teach other coping mechanism.......
