Name : Syifa Atika Rifda

Class : GHI2/HI4

CHARACTERICTICS OF SELF HARM

Have you ever heard about self-harm? Self-harm or self-injury is when

someone hurt their self as a way of dealing with very difficult feelings, painful
memories or overwhelming situations and experiences. Nowadays, self-harm
has become a negative trend, especially for teenagers. They wreak all of their
difficulties through self-harming even though its very dangerous for physically
and mentally. This action didn’t happen because they wanted to follow the
trend. In fact, 9 out 10 person experience bullying at school, it makes them feel
hated by everyone and decided to do self-harm. This action needs special
treatment from psychologist or a doctor. People who do self-harm may be able
to cover up their pain but it can’t be perfect because their family or close friend
stil be able to know that. Someone who have a wounds on their body probably
cutting their body with sharp or blunt object or hitting the walls. But self-harm is
not only about injuring the body but can also about showing symptoms of
depression like always feel nervous, too emotional, and have a trouble sleeping.
When a person is too afraid to interact with other people, probably they have a
problem which if not being treated immediately it can be dangerous. We can
find out the occurrence of self-harm such as wounds on body, symptoms of
depression, difficulties socialization.