What is Mental Illness?
A diagnosable illness that effects a persons thinking, emotional state, and behavior as well as disrupts the persons ability to work or carry out other daily activities and engage in satisfying personal relationships.
What is Self-Injury?
Self-injury is a maladaptive coping skill utilized by individuals, who lack more effective coping skills, to combat or avoid severe, intense emotional distress and unmanageable psychic pain. Self-injury is deliberate physical harm to oneself. Self-injury is also referred to as: self-inflicted violence, self-mutilation, self-harm or simply "cutting."