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One of the most horrible things a person could experience in his or her lifetime is to see someone injure itself or the so-called "self injury".
It is hard for ordinary people to comprehend why some people would go the extent of injuring themselves for reasons only known to the affected person.
"Self injury" is a form of personality disorder wherein the person involves would resort to harm his or her own self just to accomplish a certain purpose in that action.
To better understand the people who commit "self injury” here are four reasons cited by medical experts why people resort to "self injury".
 

People who engage in "self injury" should not be condemned but helped.

A. To release intention within
 

Medical experts said one primary reason why some people engage in self-injury is to release tension within them.
If a person had too much emotion inside like anger or sadness he or she thought of a way to release it by self inflicted injury like cutting or burning their very self.
The pain they experience from doing the self-injury made them tend to forget what is bugging them on the inside since their mind and heart will not be focussed on their self-inflicted injury.
The act of self-injury might be hard to swallow for some but for the patient involve it is the only way to express the emotions and tensions they felt inside them.

B. To beat out the numbness

Another interesting reason why people commit self-injury is to beat out the numbness they are experiencing within themselves.
To cope up with numbness or trauma some people resort to dissociation, a mental and emotional state where the normal unitary experience of consciousness is chopped up into disconnected parts.
One method of dissociation for some is self-injury.
Some people who experience a traumatic experience in life that made them numb to certain situation move to resolve such numbness by harming their very own self.
People who are suffering from numbness will once again regain back their senses and feelings once pain set in when they start harming their very own self.

C. Communicate themselves

Another interesting reason why some people harm themselves is simply to communicate.
Sometimes when people experience trauma they suffer a huge emotional burden within themselves that made them lose words to describe and communicate it to other people.
In order to express themselves to other people who are carrying a huge emotional burden within themselves resort to self-injury just to tell the world their feelings.
People carrying a huge emotional burden within them find self-injury as means to cope up with the feeling since it viewed pain as a form of relief for them.

D. Punishment to own self
 

Experts said some people resort to self-injury as a form of self-punishment for some bad behaviour or personal tragedy that occurs within their lives.
To make him or her pay for the bad experiences that happen in life that person decides to resort to self-injury.
Based on actual research most people who harm themselves as a form of punishment are those suffering from any form of abuse.
To make themselves pay for their traumatic experience the victim decides to harm him or her.
Sometimes the decision of the abused person to engage in self-injury could also be blamed on the abuser to make his her victim believe that they are worthless person who do not anymore deserve to be happy.

With these four reasons, why people engage in self-injury the public can now have a much better understanding on these persons and offer them the care and treatment that they deserve.