What kinds of people self-injure?
Self-injury is more common than people realize, especially among teens and can affect teens from every socio-economic, ethnic and religious background. As people who injure themselves are usually very good at hiding the results or explaining them away, there’s no certain type of person that is most likely to self-injure. With that being the case, self injury is used more often by girls in part because guys tend to use more “acceptable” forms of self-injury like punching walls. Girls are generally not socialized to express their violence externally and as a result when some girls are faced with tension, pain, or any intolerable feeling, they take it out on themselves.
