Cause and Effect Essay on Deliberate Self-Harm

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English Composition II 5 October 2012 Deliberate Self Harm Deliberately hurting or injuring yourself is called self-harming. This form of self-injury can take a number of forms such as cutting, excessive use and abuse of alcohol or drugs, taking overdose of medicines or tablets, driving dangerously, punching oneself, inhaling or sniffing harmful substances, pulling out hair or eyelashes, burning, scratching, picking or tearing the skin causing sores and scarring. It’s really widespread among teenagers. Some people self-harm once or a few times to cope with a specific problem but others do it regularly, whenever a certain kind of pressure or feelings arise. It generally leads to suicide, even if that is not what was intended. Why people, especially young people, have given for self-harming? The causes are various and can be linked to bullying or discrimination, loosing someone close such as a parent, a brother or sister, or a friend; a repetitive neglect or abuse from the parents, and a serious illness that affects the way somebody feels about him or herself. People who self-harm have most of time had very difficult and painful experiences or relationships. When the level of emotional pressure becomes too high, punishing oneself as a form of communicating the unhappiness can make someone fell alive when feeling dead inside or when it’s too difficult to talk to anyone. Bullying or discrimination is one of the self-harming causes among teenagers. Bullying is a repeated and deliberately hurtful attempt to humiliate someone. It is difficult for people being bullied to defend themselves because, most of time, the person bullying is stronger than the person bullied. Bullying can be physical (hitting, pushing or damaging others’ property), verbal (name-calling) or social (excluding someone, spreading rumors). It is not only at schools; it can happen at home, at

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