March is self-harm awareness month, and experts say self-injury doesn’t always mean someone is suicidal.

Self-harm in young people is a major public health concern, rates are rising, and the adolescent years presents a critical period of intervention. Another modern challenge facing adolescents is sleep ...

Teenagers who get poor sleep are more likely to harm themselves on purpose, a new study says. Shorter sleep, going to sleep later and frequent waking during the night all were significantly associated ...

Mental health experts say one thing is critical to understand: self-injury is often a signal of emotional pain — not a desire to die.

A new Canadian study is raising concerns about a steady rise in self-harm among young people, pointing to a growing need for better mental health supports and earlier education around coping skills.

A study in Nature Mental Health provides evidence that depression, trauma, and loneliness drive suicidal thoughts in older adults with autistic traits. The findings indicate that targeted mental ...

Virginia Tech scientist Sora Shin (right) of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC and postdoctoral associate Jane Jung found that early-life trauma changes a brain circuit linked to both ...

This research was conducted as part of a PhD project supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Centre for Society and Mental Health at King’s College London (ES/S012567/1), the ...

Victor Garcia, 34, died following roughly 20 incidents of escalating self-harm inside Wisconsin’s prison system. The Wisconsin Department of Corrections does not comprehensively track self-harm ...