How to help teens who self-harm
Teenagers go through a complex period between the ages of 13 and 19, approximately. Due to the logical immaturity of their age, they feel overwhelmed by emotions, which leads them to make bad decisions. They feel pressure to be liked by their friends, classmates, get along with their parents and respond to the social mandates of this age. In the face of so much pressure they feel a strange relief in self-flagellation. They divert attention from what bothers them by self-inflicting pain in various ways. The most common self-flagellations are small cuts in the skin, pulling out strands of hair, biting nails, banging their heads against walls, pinching, burning their skin and even poisoning themselves.
