Mental health experts say one thing is critical to understand: self-injury is often a signal of emotional pain — not a desire to die.

What's in a Name? In Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare wrote the now infamous lines, "What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." Although Shakespeare ...

(CNN) — Megan walked the halls of her suburban Houston junior high in shame. It was the first time she had to attend school with bruises on her face from the abuse by her father, who was an alcoholic.

Self-embedding is an extreme form of self-injury, in which people (typically adolescents) insert objects into their body parts to deliberately hurt themselves or mutilate their bodies without ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a new study this week, doctors describe a form of self-injury among teenagers called self-embedding, which involves inserting objects into the skin or muscle. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Emergency department visits for self-harm have spiked since the pandemic. Experts explain the psychology behind the behavior and ...