Self-harm and self-cutting is a serious problem. People who makes self-harm are not usually suicidal. They do deliberately inflict injuries upon themselves, generally in answer to stress or trauma. Women are more likely to make self-harm than men. It has been also seen that the persons who make self-injury, of 12 to 30 years of age.

Self-harm indicates that the people has in depression or feel any pressure. Cutting is common type of self-injury. Cutters frequently use are razors, utility knives, scissors, needles, broken glass, or whatever they find to make repetitive slices on their arms, legs or other body parts. Some people burn themselves with cigarettes or lighters; others pull out their own hair.

Self-harm is generally dissociated from an attempt at suicide; the person who self-harms is not generally seeking to end his or her own life, but is instead hoping to handle with or relieve unbearable emotional pressure or some kind of discomfort.

Self-harm shows that self-harming people feel so angry and aggressive they can not control their emotions. They become anxious that they may hurt someone, so they turn their anger inwards to get relief.

Reasons of self-harm:

• A sense of unreality or numbness.
• Guilt, dirtiness, shame, badness
• Anger, anxiety, frustration, panic
• A sense that no one was there for them
• Sexual, physical or emotional abuse
• Misery, grief, desperation, hopelessness
• Being subject to excessively high expectations.
• Neglect or lack of communication within the family
• Loss or separation from a parent or a parental illness
• Bullying, rejection by peers, racism or anxieties about sexual orientation

It is liability of us to understand those people who make self-injury that they are wrong. But some things that might be helpful are:

• Understand that self-harming behavior
• Offer to help find a therapist or support group
• Encourage expression of emotions, including anger
• Spend time doing enjoyable activities together
• Let her or him know that you care and that you will listen

Do not tell the person to stop the behavior or make judgmental comments – people who feel worthless and powerless are even more likely to self-injure