Why people self-injure?

This may be the aspect of self-harm that is most puzzling to those who do not do it. Why would anyone choose to inflict physical damage on him or herself? Self-injury is probably the result of many different factors and reasons. Among them:

Information on this page was adopted from these websites:

http://www.oocities.org/Februarydove/reasons.html

http://www.palace.net/~llama/psych/injury.html

http://incestabuse.about.com/health/incestabuse/library/weekly/aa021801b.htm?rnk=r1&terms=self+injury

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