Non Suicidal Self Injury

Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a behavioral problem that happens when a person intentionally harms themselves repeatedly by damaging and mutilating skin by cutting, burning, or hitting, etc., without the purpose of committing suicide. NSSI was often viewed as a symptom of a personality disorder, like borderline personality disorder since it involved self-injury behavior that would lead to suicide (Zetterqvist, 2015). However, in recent studies, people who did non-suicidal self-injury did not have borderline personality disorder (Zetterqvist, 2015). The issue revolving around NSSI is the fact that even though NSSI is done without the intentions of committing suicide, studies have shown that the behavioral problem is a possible risk factor …show more content…
Additionally, the DSM-5 states that the disorder has to connect with negative feelings like distress, anxiety, self-criticism, and depression, which leads to NSSI (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Finally, an individual's self-injury has to cause distress and interfere with critical areas of functioning like school, relationship with others, and workplace and NSSI cannot co-occur with substance intoxication, withdrawals, and delirium (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Even though the affects of doing NSSI is relieving to adolescence when they are feeling negative, the outcomes of persistently engagement can actually lead to more negative effects so it is important to do more research to gain a better aspect of NSSI actually works.
Non-Suicidal Self-Injury correlation with Suicide Attempts
Studies have been done to see if there were any correlations between NSSI and suicide. Research conducted by Matthew K. Nock and several other psychologists, using a cross-sectional study, evaluated to if there is was any connection between NSSI and suicide attempts in adolescents who within a year engaged in NSSI. The goals of their study were to evaluate the …show more content…
Elizabeth E. Lloyd-Richardson and her fellow psychologist did a study on how NSSI in Adolescence was within a community setting. For the purpose of this paper only the relations of NSSI and suicide attempts will be analyzed from this study. Lloyd-Richardson et al. (2007) goal of their study was to see how common NSSI in adolescents was within a community (Lloyd-Richardson, Perrine, Dierker, &Kelley, 2007). Another goal that they set out for their study was to see if there were any similarities in adolescents with different severity levels of NSSI with number of attempted suicide, thoughts of suicide, and if adolescents had any psychiatric history (Lloyd-Richardson et al., 2007). Lloyd et al. (2007) predicted that those who engaged in high levels of NSSI would have made multiple suicide attempts, would have a psychiatric history, and frequently having suicide thought (Lloyd-Richardson et al., 2007) They conducted their community study by having 633 high school students from five different schools in two different regions of the U.S. take an anonymous questionnaire survey. The survey used both FASM and Suicide Ideation Questionnaire format to assess: if students’ engagement in NSSI was intentional, how often they did NSSI, and if they engaged in high-risk methods NSSI (cutting, burning, and scratching) or low-risk