Self-harm

Self-harm (SH) or deliberate self-harm (DSH) includes self-injury (SI) and self-poisoning and is defined as the intentional, direct injuring of body tissue most often done without suicidal intentions. These terms are used in the more recent literature in an attempt to reach a more neutral terminology. The older literature, especially that which predates the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR), almost exclusively refers to self-mutilation. The term self-harm means the same as self-injury.

The most common form of self-harm is skin-cutting but self-harm also covers a wide range of behaviors including, but not limited to, burning, scratching, banging or hitting body parts, interfering with wound healing (dermatillomania), hair-pulling (trichotillomania) and the ingestion of toxic substances or objects. Behaviours associated with substance abuse and eating disorders are usually not considered self-harm because the resulting tissue damage is ordinarily an unintentional side effect. However, the boundaries are not always clearly defined and in some cases behaviours that usually fall outside the boundaries of self-harm may indeed represent self-harm if performed with explicit intent to cause tissue damage. Although suicide is not the intention of self-harm, the relationship between self-harm and suicide is complex, as self-harming behaviour may be potentially life-threatening. There is also an increased risk of suicide in individuals who self-harm to the extent that self-harm is found in 40–60% of suicides. However, generalising self-harmers to be suicidal is, in the majority of cases, inaccurate.

SH

SH, Sh, sH or sh may refer to:

Places

  • Saint Helena Island ISO 3166 digram and FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code
  • .sh, the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of Saint Helena
  • Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
  • Shanghai, China
  • Canton of Schaffhausen, Switzerland
  • Transportation

  • the IATA airline designator for FlyMe
  • State highway
  • Science and mathematics

  • -SH, represents the thiol functional group in a chemical structure diagram
  • sinh, the hyperbolic sine, a mathematical function
  • in meteorology, the Siberian High.
  • In Engineering, the Sherwood number
  • In mathematical set theory, the Suslin hypothesis
  • Computing

  • Thompson shell, a command-line shell for Unix
  • Bourne shell, a command-line shell for Unix
  • Lib Sh, a Graphics Metaprogramming library for C++
  • Technology

  • SuperH, a Hitachi microcontroller
  • Sharp Corporation's mobile phones in Japan
  • an interface type in the IP Multimedia Subsystem
  • Organizations

  • Sonatrach, a State Oil Company of Algeria
  • S&H Green Stamps

    S&H Green Stamps were trading stamps popular in the United States from the 1930s until the late 1980s. They were distributed as part of a rewards program operated by the Sperry & Hutchinson company (S&H), founded in 1896 by Thomas Sperry and Shelley Byron Hutchinson. During the 1960s, the company promoted its rewards catalog as being the largest publication in the United States and boasted that it issued three times as many stamps as the U.S. Postal Service. Customers would receive stamps at the checkout counter of supermarkets, department stores, and gasoline stations among other retailers, which could be redeemed for products in the catalog.

    S&H Green Stamps had several competitors, including Gold Bell Gift Stamps (in the Midwest), Triple S Stamps (offered by Grand Union Supermarkets), Gold Bond Stamps, Blue Chip Stamps, Plaid Stamps (a project of A&P Supermarkets), Top Value Stamps, Buccaneer, and Eagle Stamps (a project of several divisions of the May Department Stores Co. of St. Louis, Missouri and offered, notably, by May Company stores, supermarkets, drug stores, gas stations, and dry cleaners in the Cleveland, Ohio area).

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