health

• Intentional Injury


  A deliberate, intentional, or direct injury to the body tissue. This is also regarded as self-harm or self-injury.
• Forms of self-harm


  • Skin-cutting
  • Burning
  • Scratching
  • Banging
  • Hitting body parts
  • Interfering with wound healing
  • Hair pulling
  • Ingestion of toxic substance or objects
• The relationship between self-harm and suicide

  Self-harming behavior may be potentially life-threatening
• Conditions associated with self-harm

  • Depression
  • Substance abuse
  • Eating disorders
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder
  • Anxiety disorders
  • Schizophrenia
  • Severe personality disorders
• Addressing self-harm


  1. Identify the causes or the behavior itself

  2. Use of depressant drugs to patients with depression

  3. Keep the individual busy with activities to replace the act of self-harm

  4. Use safer methods that do not lead to permanent damage
• Lesch-Nyhan syndrome


  A rare genetic condition with distinctive characteristics which involve self-harm that includes biting and head-banging
• Use of drugs and alcohol


  Associated with self-harm
• People experiencing certain mental illnesses

  Have a higher risk of self-harm
• Munchausen syndrome


  A rare type of mental disorder where a patient fakes illness to gain attention and sympathy
• Schizophrenia


  A serious mental condition of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception
• Borderline personality disorder


  A mental illness that severely impacts a person's ability to manage their emotions. This loss of emotional control can increase impulsivity, affect how a person feels about themselves, and negatively impact their relationships with others
• Psychological factors contributing to self-harm

  • Child abuse
  • Bereavement
  • Troubled parental or partner relationships
  • War
  • Poverty
  • Unemployment
• Preventing self-harm

  1. Maintain a healthy mind and body

  2. Engage and participate actively in worthwhile activities

  3. Socialize regularly

  4. Live a clean, happy, healthy, and peaceful life

  5. Improve spirituality

  6. Handle and manage stress and problems properly
• Intentional Injuries


  Injuries inflicted to others on purpose. Planned actions or willful acts meant to cause harm and injury to others.
• Types of Intentional Injuries


  • Bullying
  • Stalking
  • Extortion
  • Gang and youth violence
  • Illegal fraternity-related violence
  • Kidnapping
  • Abduction
  • Domestic Violence
  • Abuse
  • Suicide
  • Sexual Abuse
  • Acts of terror
• Bullying


  Behavior displayed by school-age children that is characterized by aggressive, unwanted actions, and perceived or real imbalance of power. The behavior is repeated over time. Bullying acts include making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose.
• Cyberbullying


  Any bullying that happens over technological devices. This includes e-mail, instant messaging, social networking sites like Facebook, text messages, and cellphones.
• Stalking


  Unwanted or obsessive attention by an individual or group towards another person. Stalkers could monitor, follow, intimidate, and/or harass their victim.
• Extortion


  A criminal offense of obtaining money, property, or service from an institution through coercion. Different from robbery where the offender takes the property from the victim by immediate use of force or threat. In blackmail, the extortionist threatens to reveal information about a victim or their family members that is potentially embarrassing, socially damaging or incriminating, unless a demand is met.
• Gang and Youth Violence


  Involvement with gangs is one of the things that can greatly increase the chance of the youth getting involved in violence. Gang membership-related acts that could trigger serious violence among the youth include selling drugs and bringing weapons to school.
• Illegal Fraternity-related Violence


  Any form of brutality involving non-recognized fraternity groups, such as hazing which is prohibited in different countries.
• Types of Hazing


  • Power Differential Hazing
  • Harassment Hazing
  • Violent Hazing
• Power Differential Hazing


  Inflicts more mental than physical suffering, often resulting in the ridicule, embarrassment, and humiliation of new members. Can lead to damaged relationships and unhealthy dynamics between new members and existing members.
• Harassment Hazing


  Inflicts emotional or physical stress, creating situations that result in the confusion and frustration of the new members.
• Violent Hazing


  Inflicts either physical, emotional, or psychological harm to new members, involving violent activities.
• Kidnapping


  The forcible abduction, stealing, or carrying away a person by force, threat or deceit with an intent to cause the victim to be detained against his or her own will. May be done for ransom, for political reasons, or for other purposes.
• Abduction


  The criminal act of taking away a person by persuasion, fraud, or by open force or violence. Both abduction and kidnapping refer to the unlawful taking or detention of one person by another.
• Domestic Violence and Abuse


  Patterns of abusive behaviors by one partner against another in an intimate relationship such as marriage, dating, family or cohabitation. Can come in various forms including physical aggression, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, controlling or domineering, intimidation, stalking, and economic deprivation.
• Suicide


  The act of killing oneself on purpose or dying at one's hand. Risk factors include mental disorders, depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, personality disorder, alcoholism, substance misuse, impulsive acts, financial difficulties, and troubles with relationships.
• Sexual Abuse


  Sometimes referred to as molestation and is usually an undesired sexual behavior expressed by one person upon another. Can include derogatory name-calling, refusal to use contraception, deliberately causing unwanted physical pain during sex, and deliberately passing on sexually-transmitted diseases or infections.
• Acts of Terror


  Includes threats of terrorism; assassinations; kidnappings; hijackings; bomb scares and bombings; cyber attacks; and the use of chemical, biological, nuclear and radiological weapons.