• The act of deliberately inflicting harm on ones own body without suicidal intent or plans of bodily modification (eg. piercing your ears isnt self-injury). Typically self-injury is practiced to block [mental pain] with physical pain, or to provide the self-injurer with something that they can feel if they are emotionally numb. Common forms of self-injury include cutting with a [sharp object] such as a razor or a knife, burning (with an open flame, chemicals, a heated object (technically, this is [branding], not burning), or friction from rubbing with an object such as a pencil erasor), scratching or scraping, and hitting (whether with ones own hands or another object).


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