TWR Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Does anyone have experience of working with adolescents and young adults that cut themselves superficially usually the forearms. I have seen this 4-5 times in recent years and all have been young women that had some emotional issue usually a family situation. Appreciate any input. I work in family medicine. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timon Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 High risk to be borderline personality with high suspicion of hx of childhood sexual abuse (MCC) vs physical abuse. I believe the correlation is around 90% from what I was told by psych. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorpsmanUP Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Umm, no. There is little to no correlation. http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/192/3/166 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sk732 Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 There are a lot of borderline PD's that cut or do other self harm things (had one that caused a 3-4th degree chemical burn with Draino because they felt they weren't being listened to), but I've noticed a trend of late of teenage girls cutting because they think it's fashionable for some reason. Most I've run into that aren't "fashionista's" do have dyscopia issues with the usual teengage angst, family problems, personal relationships, school problems, bullying, etc. When I saw it with hypersexualism, I was concerned with sexual abuse. $0.02 Cdn. SK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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