Why Do They Self Harm?

and depression, dementia, liver disease and much more.” (www.dosomething.org). Now moving on to why people self harm. So why do they self harm? Well there could be many reasons. Some of the reasons could be to distract themselves from the overwhelming emotions/thoughts, to release the tension caused by the emotions, to feel something because they are numb, to punish themselves, and to experience euphoria right after the self harm occurs. All of those doings are caused by depression. Now the other one is going to drugs, drugs are influenced because of what they do. “Mental illness is such a burden for some people they will try just about anything to relieve the pain.” (http://thejenniferact.com), depression causes us to run to anything to escape …show more content…
In an article it says “Drugs can lift a person into a fake kind of cheerfulness, but when the drug wears off, he or she crashes even lower than before.” (http://www.drugfreeworld.org) people who consume drugs believe that it will make them happier and it does, but afterwards you just end up lower than before which only worsens the pain they had. Drugs harm the body by weakening the immune system, increases the percentage of infections, cause cardiovascular problems that can lead to a heart attack, causes liver failure that leads to making the liver to work harder, causes seizures, and brain damage. In addition drugs that are injected can cause collapsed veins and infections in the blood. The reasons people do drugs could be: to fit in, escape, relax, boredom, seem grown up, rebel, and to …show more content…
There is the anxiety disorder is a person that constantly feel fear. The types of anxiety are generalized anxiety disorder, agoraphobia, social anxiety disorder, phobias, panic disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder There is the impulse-control disorder that have the incapability to control their impulses, this where the person either hurts themselves or others. Examples of that is when someone is fire-starting, stealing, hair-pulling, and skin picking. The dissociative disorder is when “interruption in aspects of consciousness, including identity and memory”. There is also the feeding and eating disorder, the person either gains weight or loses a lot of weight. There is obesity that is becoming over weight, and then there is anorexic where they get so skinny all you see is bones, and finally there is bulimia in where they force themselves to throw up to become skinny. Bulimia causes the teeth to rot because the vomit is acid. Mood disorder is changes in the mood, constant mood swings. The types of Mood disorders are bipolar, major depressive, disruptive mood dysregulation, and premenstrual dysphoric disorder. The types of neurocognitive disorders are, Alzheimer's disease, delirium, major neurocognitive, and mild neurocognitive disorder. These types of disorder affect the person by having problems with memory and problem solving.