Promoting Hope, Preventing Suicide

Research and advice on preventing teen and adult suicide.

by Elana Premack Sandler, L.C.S.W., M.P.H.

Elana Premack Sandler, LCSW, MPH, is a public health social worker specializing in violence and injury prevention and adolescent health promotion. See full bio

July 2, 2009, Depression

Comments on "Self-Injury: Addiction? Parasuicide? Cry for Help? Or None of the Above?"

Self-Injury: Addiction? Parasuicide? Cry for Help? Or None of the Above?

By Elana Premack Sandler, L.C.S.W., M.P.H. on July 2, 2009 in Promoting Hope, Preventing Suicide

Non-suicidal self-injury strikes me as one of those mysteries of human behavior. The purpose of self-injury is not to cause permanent damage to the body; self-injury is not always intentional self-mutilation. Yet, the outcome of self-injury is often a permanent mark. Read More

Self-Injury

Submitted by Anonymous on October 4, 2009 - 6:18pm.

I think that this is a great article about self-injury. It really approaches S.I. from the self-injurer's perspective. Threats, confiscation of the items, and basically anything else that stresses out the self-injurer is basically a bad idea.
Thank you for writing this.

You're welcome

Submitted by Elana Premack Sandler, L.C.S.W., M.P.H. on October 14, 2009 - 8:26am.

Thank you for reading.

Elana

Great article, full of

Submitted by Anonymous on October 13, 2009 - 3:18pm.

Great article, full of insight and understanding. Also, SI usually seems to refer to cutting, there are many other types of SI, some which do not leave marks. There is also an "emotional" type of SI (don't know if that's what it called) but there doesn't seem to be much info on it.