Self-injury so often occurs in private, an important reason why solid statistics are hard to come by. But researchers estimate between 10 and 40 percent of adolescents, and up to 10 percent of adults, ...

Adolescents and young adults with mood disorders and cannabis use disorder (CUD) are at significantly increased risk for self-harm, all-cause mortality, homicide, and death by unintentional overdose, ...

When you hear "self-injury," what do you think of? As a self-harm researcher and expert in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), I've heard people say a lot of inaccurate things about self-injury.

My first introduction to self-harm in autism was with headbanging. While headbanging is a relatively uncommon version of self-harm in the general population, for autistic individuals, headbanging is ...

Credit: Getty Images Improving perception of internal body states, or interoception, can help everyone better care for their own bodies. The Conversation — Did you know that anorexia is the most ...

Background: Lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people may be at higher risk of mental disorders than heterosexual people. Method: We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of the prevalence of ...

Meta will restrict content related to suicide, self-harm and eating disorders from teen users as part of an update to youth safety and privacy policies, the company announced Tuesday. The content ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An increased disconnect from your body can make it easier to harm yourself, whether by disordered eating or suicide. Maskot/Maskot ...

Jan. 9 (UPI) --Meta on Tuesday announced new policies to restrict teens from viewing content related to self-harm and eating disorders on Facebook and Instagram. Beginning Tuesday teens younger than ...