Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Injuring or hurting one's self or itself.
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Examples
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I have a grand-daughter who is self-harming, but for very different reasons.
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A nationally ranked swimmer at sixteen, I battled eating disorders for over a decade and know the suffering of masking pain with perfectionism and self-harming behavior all too well.
Stephanie Armstrong: It's Cool to Skip Lunch Stephanie Armstrong 2011
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I used to be a psychotherapist, working with high-risk, suicidal and self-harming women, doing therapy and training other clinicians and designing programs using the concepts.
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By way of crazy icing on the batshit cake, it also has a self-harming teenage daughter who gets involved with one of her father's more unstable teenage patients, McDermott's naked bum, flashbacks, at least 14 possible endings when the burned man begs Ben to leave the house before he too is induced to set fire to himself and his family!
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Catch it before the cutter has performed 10 self-harming acts and the prognosis is significantly better.
Dr. Harold Koplewicz: YouTube Cutters: What Parents Can Do About Kids Injuring Themselves on Camera Dr. Harold Koplewicz 2011
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The Butterfly Project, Lancashire: helping to prevent girls self-harming
Last call for the Observer and Guardian Christmas Appeal 2011
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It was the BBC adaptation of The Line of Beauty (2006), directed by Saul Dibb, in which she played self-harming, manic depressive Catherine Fedden, that made her name.
Hayley Atwell: 'The real me is a loner, a nerd and a bit overweight' Kate Kellaway 2010
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His first outing in made-up crime has, as you would expect, lots of mentions of different sorts of dope as well as a missing rock star in the shape of panda-eyed, self-harming Richey Edwards-clone Owen Face.
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She told me that she'd been called because a woman was self-harming on the station and that was the only place she could park ...
Boing Boing 2009
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Catch it before the cutter has performed 10 self-harming acts and the prognosis is significantly better.
Dr. Harold Koplewicz: YouTube Cutters: What Parents Can Do About Kids Injuring Themselves on Camera Dr. Harold Koplewicz 2011
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