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What is non-suicidal self-harm?

Beautiful Voyager

Non-suicidal self-harm means inflicting damage to your own body without the intention of suicide (and not consistent with cultural norms). The most common methods of non-suicidal self-harm are cutting (70%) or scratching, deliberately hitting the body on a hard surface, punching, hitting or slapping one’s self, and biting or burning.

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For Some, the Greater the Closeness, the Greater the Perceived Risk

Gary Direnfeld

The learning for some is the closer you get intimately, the greater the risk of harm and/or betrayal. Just be open to self-examination. Gary maintains a private practice in Georgina Ontario, providing a range of services for people in distress. In what could be a good relationship that can undermine intimacy and sink it.

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Leaving Home Before Your Time

Gary Direnfeld

They flee those conditions that being harm to self and others within the home. Gary maintains a private practice in Georgina Ontario, providing a range of services for people in distress. Some young people don’t leave home. Some flea at a young age, teenagers, not yet fully formed, not yet adults.

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Couple Counseling: Is It Safe?

Gary Direnfeld

Risk indicators includes screaming, name calling, breaking of objects, hitting, pushing, shoving, choking, threatening harm, abuse of pets, limiting access to resources, police or child protection agency involvement. Gary maintains a private practice in Georgina Ontario, providing a range of services for people in distress.

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Changing Your Set-Point on Responding to Abuse

Gary Direnfeld

If from early on, you experienced trauma and were poorly supported, it may skew your set-point for self-protection. As you now take care of yourself, set boundaries and risk losing those relationships now understood as harmful and/or exploitive, you take charge of your self-worth and elevate it.

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Disconnect Bridged: Getting Closer in Your Relationship

Gary Direnfeld

She thought him self-centered. She saw how speaking up brought harm to her mother. Gary maintains a private practice in Georgina Ontario, providing a range of services for people in distress. He thought her a complainer. He hailed from a family where dad abandoned him and his mother, when he was an infant.

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Self-Care, Self-Defense: Therapist Says Jiu-Jitsu Hobby Teaches Power of Consent

Social Work Blog

By Alison Laurio Ryan Tolman is a clinical social worker in private practice who specializes in anxiety and stress, and sees clients online and in person in his Bellingham, Wash., He also practices Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and has taught a martial arts training course for kids. If someone says ‘tap’ or taps you, you let go.