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Cutting to Cope: Understanding the Emotional Desperation behind Self-Harm In This Episode: Self-harm can be used as a desperate attempt to relieve some physiological and psychological tension. Self-injurious behaviors include: cutting, carving, scratching, branding, marking, burning, scraping, biting, bruising, hitting, and other ways of hurting oneself.  Self-harming behaviors can increase the risk of suicide because of the emotional problems that trigger self-harming behaviors, but it doesn’t meant that the person is suicidal.  Seek professional help is you or your child is engaging in self harming behavior. Self-harm is more common with teens, than any other age group in the life span.  It has become an “epidemic” in some populations. Finding out that your child is harming themselves can feel frightening, mysterious, and confusing. Self-injury is sometimes used as a desperate attempt to diminish tough emotions, to achieve proof of “alive-ness”, or relieve emotional pain.   Sometimes, when kids hear that s