Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Self-Destructive Behavior

Why would like to use self-injury behavior to cope with something? You should talk to teachers, friends, family, and other people that care about you in many ways. If you just talk to people and tell them how you feel and why you are doing this stuff to your-self. There are several different types of self-injuries. People ask all kinds of questions about self-injury. They ask what is self-destructive behavior, why do teens participate in self-destructive behavior, why is self-destructive behavior more predominant today than when your parents or grandparents were teens, and what can be done to help teens who participate in self-destruction behavior? Self-injury is one of the most deadly things in the world that people deal with on a daily bases. Most people don’t know how to deal or cop with self-injury so they take it out on them-selves. People use different types of self-injury they are several ways that they deal with it.
Self-injury is the act of attempting to alter a mood state by inflicting physical harm serious enough to cause tissue dame to one’s body. There are nine different types of self-injury behavior including curving, scratching, branding, marking, burning/abrasions, biting, bruising, hitting, and picking/pulling skin and hair. There are also four types that are not part of self-injury behavior which are sexual gratification, body decoration, spiritual enlightenment via ritual, and fitting in or being cool. For example, if you bite things or pool hair around people they would think that something is very wrong with you, but you are just using self-injury to help cover something that you are hiding. People cope with different ways to deal with self-injury. In the book CUT, Callie had cut herself and that is part of self-injury. She know people from Sea Pines or other known as Sick Minds that had eating disorders, that would cut themselves like she did and people that would eat and then make themselves sick after that would eat.
Teens participate in self-destructive behavior are caused for many different reasons. Teens think that it reduces physiological and psychological tension rapidly. Sometimes people who self-injure get emotionally overwhelmed with everyday things. Teens use self-harm brings their levels of psychological and physiological tension. They manly feel a strong uncomfortable emotion. Hurting themselves will reduce the emotional discomfort extremely quickly. Some people never get a chance to learn how to cope effectively. Learning that certain feelings weren’t allowed. Some teens were in abusive homes, may have been severely punished for expressing certain thoughts and feelings. Teens had no role models for coping with to talk to when they were upset. They learned to cope effectively with distress unless you grow up around people who are coping with effectively distress. They could have had a history of abuse and that could be common with self-injuries. Problems with neurotransmitters may play a role. They could play a role in depressions. There is a tendency toward impulsive aggression, could belief that their feelings are bad or wrong. The person how are harming himself/herself learn that self-injury reduces his level of distress. There are kinds of people that deal with self-injury. There are people that can handle self-injury and they are teachers, therapists, medical professional, lawyers, professors, and engineers. Near 50% of teenagers have been physical abuse and/or sexual abused in their childhood. Most particularly is anger or has sadness in their life. Some people have eating disorders like the people in CUT that would sometimes eat but sometimes they would sometime not eat at all.
Teens are near self-injury behavior more than predominant because of alcoholism, drug abuse, overeating, anorexia and bulimia, workaholic’s, smoking cigarettes, and forms of problems avoidance. Isn’t it just another way to describe a failed suicide attempt? No, self-injury is a maladaptive to coping mechanism, also a way to stay alive. People who inflict physical harm on themselves are often doing it to attempt suicide. They would just do this to make them feel better about themselves because they would feel better. There is unbearable feelings and pressures through self-harm to themselves, they think that it is eases for them to urge towards suicide. I think that if somebody that is using self-injury to cope for something that is suffering because of their childhood. I understand that they went through a lot in their childhood but they should talk to somebody and not take everything out on themselves just to deal with what has happened to them.
Teens that are self-destructive should talk to people and tell them how they feel and why they are cutting themselves, why they decided to have a eating disorder and not eating or eating way to much or why they want to cut themselves. If they are at school you could talk to teachers, councilors, and talk to friends that you have from school and you could tell them why you want to cut yourself or having an eating disorder. You could have an intervention and you could tell them why you are cutting yourself or having eating problems. I could help them try to be there for that person and just be there for them and just let them know that I’m there for them. I would just let them know that whatever they are doing they could stop and that we could just talk about it and that they don’t have to do this by themselves.
What would you do to help somebody that is coping with self-injury? There is a lot of ways that your could cope with self-injury behavior, you could talk to people that you trust and tell them why you are cutting yourself and why you aren’t eating anymore. Most people ask what is self-destructive behavior, do teens participate in self-destructive behavior, self-destructive behavior more predominant today than when our parents or grandparents, and what can we do to help teens. So with teens we can help them cope in many ways like being there for them and just listen to what they have to say and just be there for them and don’t back stab them.