pyschology class

I remember with the conversation between one of my student and I were talking about.

It was about mentality and emotional of human.

I asked him, can we call 'sick people' when they are getting upset or stress and they are hurting their self to redeem their emotion?

And surprisingly he said yes, based on what he learned during his study, we can classiffied them as a mentality illness. Wowww it made me shock...

He said that every time their hurt themself to redeem their emotion and feel free or relief after that,they need a medical help.

Then i did my defense, I said rather than someone get scold or getting hurt by my words, don't you think hurt yourself is a good way?

Then I google about this conversation.

It calls as self harm or deliberate self-harm (DSH). It can includes self injury or self poisoning.

But on this topic my concern is about self injury. Someone who having a deliberate self harm literally they don't have a suicidal intentions. Why people classified into a DSH? Let's learn more about this.

As some people said people can be DSH because they are feeling numb, lost, alone, unreal, dissociation or hyperstres. DSH often becomes a response of overwhelming emotional pain that can not be resolved in the normal way. For the DSH people, after they doing self injured, they feel relieved, in control and calm. It's so pathetic.