Cut..CUT..=Yes/No?!

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Have you ever harmed yourself?

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Do punching walls count? I do it more as a training thing rather than self harm. Pah! It isn't fair. Mum won't get me them punching thingamybobs.

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May Allaah make it easy for the young Muslim brother or sister who turns to this type of 'relief'-aameen.
 
i've voted,

by the way how can nail biting be a form of self-harm, i do it, and my fingers start bleeding, but i dont do it coz i want to self-harm, i do it because im anxious or nervous about something.... *they only bleed a bit*
 
Star said:
i've voted,

by the way how can nail biting be a form of self-harm, i do it, and my fingers start bleeding, but i dont do it coz i want to self-harm, i do it because im anxious or nervous about something.... *they only bleed a bit*
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Its just a bad habit, not self-harming. Its like, hitting yourself lightly (on the head) when you made a mistake :D Silly, but just a personal expression. Not self-harming in that sense.

Du'aa for worry and grief

Allaahumma 'innee 'abduka, ibnu 'abdika, ibnu 'amatika, naasiyatee biyadika, maadhin fiyya hukmuka, 'adlun fiyya qadhaa'uka, 'as'aluka bikulli ismin huwa laka, sammayta bihi nafsaka, 'aw 'anzaltahu fee kitaabika, 'aw 'allamtahu 'ahadan min khalqika, 'awista'tharta bihi fee 'ilmil-ghaybi 'indaka, 'an taj'alal-Qur'aana rabee'a qalbee, wa noora sadree, wa jalaa'a huznee, wa thahaaba hammee .

O Allah, I am Your slave and the son of Your male slave and the son of your female slave . My forehead is in Your Hand (i.e. you have control over me) . Your Judgment upon me is assured and Your Decree concerning me is just . I ask You by every Name that You have named Yourself with , revealed in Your Book , taught any one of Your creation or kept unto Yourself in the knowledge of the unseen that is with You , to make the Qur'an the spring of my heart, and the light of my chest, the banisher of my sadness and the reliever of my distress.

Reference: Ahmad 1/391, and Al-Albani graded it authentic.

Allaahumma 'innee 'a'oothu bika minal-hammi walhazani, wal'ajzi walkasali, walbukhli waljubni, wa dhala'id-dayni wa ghalabatir-rijaal .

O Allah , I seek refuge in you from grief and sadness, from weakness and from laziness, from miserliness and from cowardice, from being overcome by debt and overpowered by men (i .e . others) .

Reference: Al-Bukhari 7/158. See also Al-Asqalani, Fathul-Bari 11/173.
 
pheww.. good to know, jazakillah khayr uktee... thanx for the duas as well...
 
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Alhamdulilah I have never participated in self-harm, I am one to take out my anger on objects tho..:giggling:
 
Yh its been satistically prooven that girls self harm more than boys..i read somewhere that one in every ten girls do..so it is quite a popular occurance.
 
chand said:
Yh its been satistically prooven that girls self harm more than boys..i read somewhere that one in every ten girls do..so it is quite a popular occurance.
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From personal experience I suspect it is much more common. Nearly every person I ever had in any of my counseling sessions with had admitted to some form of self damage. However, to be honest because of my particular discipline I had very little experience with live clients primarily just in my internships.

I also suspect that boys also do it to the same degree only in more flamboyant forms, that do not appear to be simple tension relief. Such as carving initials instead of random cutting, or self made tattoos etc.
 
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Well of course it is really frustrating :raging: but i try to take teh pain without telling anyone because if i tell anyone they will be worried adn i do not want that to happen today i was cleaning my stairs with a broom and the outer door has a corner (mild sharp) and i poked throught it with my left hand and the notice thing about that is that i got it in different places not one different like different specific places on my hand when i only saw on place getting hit LOL:w: :w:
 
I work in Mental Health, and I just have to say the results of the poll have shocked me badly.
Self harm as related to cutting affects less than 1% of the population.
This poll shows that 27% of Muslims are self harming. I know these polls can be skewed by lots of factors, but thats a really really big percentage.
 
barney said:
I work in Mental Health, and I just have to say the results of the poll have shocked me badly.
Self harm as related to cutting affects less than 1% of the population.
This poll shows that 27% of Muslims are self harming. I know these polls can be skewed by lots of factors, but thats a really really big percentage.
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Oddly, I found the poll results to be close to what I found in practice. However, I did not fully practice clinical psych and only did an internship in it and my actual clientèle was a specific socio-economic group.

Here are part of the results of one study.

Statistics on self-injury in Maine are all but nonexistent – lumped together with data on suicide – and local information is anecdotal at best. In Massachusetts, however, some figures are available.

There, 18 percent of high school students reported in 2003 that they had intentionally injured themselves at least once in the previous year, according to that state’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey, part of an annual national study performed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The national survey includes questions on smoking, sex and suicide, but Massachusetts is the only state to include a question on self-injury in its survey, according to the most recent information available.

In Maine, interviews with anyone who deals with teenagers, including school and mental health professionals, suggest self-injury is happening everywhere.

Guidance counselors, school social workers and nurses from high schools in Bangor, Belfast, Houlton, Calais, Newport and Millinocket all have reported dealing with students who harm themselves.

The principal of Great Salt Bay School in Damariscotta in May sent a letter to parents of seventh- and eighth-grade pupils notifying them of an increase in reports of cutting at the school. Later that month, the school convened a public discussion about cutting.
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Source: http://www.jenniferboyer.com/SInews12.html

Although self damage (cutting) only seems to affect about 1% of the total population, nearly all who engage in it are teens. It seems to be very common and of epidemic proportions among teens.
 
Yep woodrow, but we see people with mental health probs as part of our job. The forum is just the general public...it shouldnt be twenty times higher than it is.. Thats worrying. :(
 
barney said:
Yep woodrow, but we see people with mental health probs as part of our job. The forum is just the general public...it shouldnt be twenty times higher than it is.. Thats worrying. :(
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There are many possible explanations. The main one being a poll can only measure what it is designed to measure. I believe that you and I would not view this as a very scientific poll and some things we do not know are the demographics of the voters.


Another view of this is there are over 10,000 LI members but out of the 10,000 only about 30 admit to self cutting. Less than 1/3 of 1% of the total LI population.

I do agree that it is odd that such a high number of those who partook of the poll admit to cutting behavior, But, then again, the thread title just may be biased for encouraging thread cutters and the voters do not represent a fair population sampling of the members.
 
i even afraid to prick my ear. :D

but i'm okay with roller coaster and body slide (never try the body slide though)
 
leader said:
people harm der slfs for lil reason buh i dnt understand y?

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i think its coz they wanna commit suicide but when they feel da intense pain they slow it down, so it jus leaves it as cuts.


i kno someone whos tried commiting suicide 7 times, and looks like more attemps might be made in da future...


it cud also be a problem with the head... may Allah save us from it
 

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