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This video discusses Self Harm and Borderline Personality Disorder to help you build your understanding so you can gain insight and control in self harm tendencies and behaviors. Self-mutilation is a complex byproduct of a wide variety of mental illnesses. It has been associated with substance abuse, eating disorders, posttraumatic stress disorder, major depressive disorder, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, and BPD (Klonsky et al., 2003). It can be defined as the infliction of harm on the self without intent to end one’s life. Klonsky and colleagues found that 4% of the general population and between 14 and 35% of college students have engaged in some form of self-mutilation, such as cutting (70%), banging or hitting themselves (21–44%), and burning themselves (15–35%). The researchers also found no conclusive evidence to show that one gender engages in self-harm at a higher rate than another.

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The first step in the sequence entails the person being devalued by an identified important other. These feelings become internalized, and the individual withdraws and begins to disconnect from his or her feelings and internal subjective state. He or she turns on the self, internalizing the identified other's view, and then engages in self-mutilation/self-sabotaging behaviors that provide relief. Relief is not the singular subjective state of lessening anxiety but takes on many forms. Various definitions of "perceived relief" are next.

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Citation:

Klonsky, E David & Oltmanns, Thomas & Turkheimer, Eric. (2003). Deliberate Self-Harm in a Nonclinical Population: Prevalence and Psychological Correlates. The American j