Essay On Self Injurers

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Self-injurers

In the United States, it’s estimated that millions of youth deliberately hurt themselves by various means, such as burning, bruising or cutting themselves. Experts say the reason they do it “is because they want to end their pain, not their lives.” Why are these youth deliberately hurting themselves? This is a serious and dangerous situation that these youth are facing. When injuring themselves they use razors, knives, scissors, and anything that they can put their hands on. Many sufferers have carried the practice of self-injury into adulthood. Those who develop such a disorder may have come from troubled families; others from happy and stable homes. Some of them are dropping out of school, and

Therefore, such action from their youth may appear to them to be an attempt to take their lives (suicidal attempt). But in reality, it’s not the case. All they’re trying to do is to get rid of the emotional pain or fears, not their lives. It’s understandable that sometimes some parents have to take some youth to emergency rooms because they cut themselves so badly. Some of them even get stitches to some deep cuts, but it doesn’t mean that it was an attempt to commit suicide. That is the only way that some sufferers know to deal with stress. Others get into violence, crime, use of illicit drugs, and drinking alcoholic beverages. Researchers found that “many self-injurers have suffered some type of trauma, such as childhood abuse or neglect.” Not everybody sees it like that though; others have a different point of view, thinking family conflict, drug used or alcoholism of a parent or both parents is the factor. Another possibility is that a brain malfunction may cause such a reaction. For some sufferers, self-injury is self-discipline for letting their parents or someone they love down. This self-discipline includes punching walls, kicking, hitting themselves with anything to cause bruises, deep cuts, and so forth. Those youth choose to suffer like that because they hate