Self-directed violence or SDV is another term that is commonly used among mental health professionals, that describes a range of violent behaviors, including acts of fatal and non-fatal suicidal behavior and non-suicidal intentional harm.
An example of self-directed violence might be cutting. This where you have an individual who feels numb or describes a feeling of numbness, and they just want to feel something again, and so they cut themselves.
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