Self-injury feels like an effective coping mechanism for some people. The sharp increase in reported self-harm cases could be a measure of teens’ reactions to an increasingly stressful world, says Michael Hollander, Ph.D., the author of Helping Teens Who Cut and the director of training and consultation for 3East, a residential therapy program for adolescents and young adults at McLean Hospital in Massachusetts. (Boys’ rates of self-harm, which are lower, remained stable over the same period.) teens have experimented with self-harm at least once-more than any other age group.īetween 20, emergency room reports of self-harm rose 18.8 percent among 10- to 14-year-old girls and 7.2 percent among girls 15 to 19, the CDC report found. Self-injury, which includes cutting, punching, burning, and other practices intended to hurt oneself, is often used to regulate overwhelming emotions, experts say. The behavior puts teens at risk for suicide and is being reported at an alarming rate, according to a recent study by the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, a division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This anonymous post from an online forum is disturbing, but it illustrates the intense feelings associated with non-suicidal self-injury. Signs of Self Harm: 3 Tips for Parents That Will Make a Difference
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