Self-harm or self-injury means hurting yourself on purpose. One common method is cutting with a sharp object. But any time someone deliberately hurts themself is classified as self-harm. Some people ...

We need a new paradigm for addiction that puts psychology first and recognizes its heterogeneity. Only then will we see that ...

Over 600,000.  That’s the number of people who visited emergency departments across the United States in 2022 due to ...

Banning social media for under 16s will not work and could put children at greater risk of harm, the father of Molly Russell ...

As many as one in six teenagers have self-harmed at some point in their lives. As well as being an indicator of emotional pain, self-harm is also the best-known predictor of death by suicide—yet ...

Self-harm refers to intentionally injuring one's own body as a coping mechanism to emotional distress. It manifests in many forms and has serious consequences, not only on physical health but also on ...

For generations, childhood danger meant something tangible: a scraped knee, a bike crash, a broken arm on the playground. Today, our children’s wounds are often invisible and increasingly ...