People often keep it a secret, but the urge to self-harm isn’t uncommon, especially in adolescents and young adults. Many ...

Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is alarmingly common among teenagers and young adults around the globe. Over the past decade, the statistics on the prevalence of NSSI have varied from study-to-study.

She couldn't cope. More than that, she couldn't feel. The teenage girl was a victim of incest, and all that she endured, all the emotional damage that she carried, she buried. "She just had bottled up ...

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.