Many of suicidal and self-inflicted injuries are encountered in my surgical practice. When pain exceeds pain-coping resources, suicide is committed. Self-harm occurs. It is neither wrong nor right, not a defect of character Morally neutral, simply an imbalance of pain versus coping resources. THERE ARE MORE DEATHS DUE TO SUICIDE THAN VIOLENCE. NECK is commonly used.
Due to a small diameter, accessibility, no bony shield. Contains airway, great vessels, and spinal cord. Neck has been used by assailants, execution by Judicial System and suicide. Self-inflicting injuries; When someone intentionally does self-harm because they are hurting so bad inside(emotionally) that they have no other way to express it. The inner emotional psychological pain is so great that it needs to be over-run by physical pain. Self-mutilation- Intentional/deliberate act, by inflicting damage to oneself, a…
