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Consequences of “selfharm” – self-damaging behavior (pathomimia) in adolescents<\/p><\/div>\n
Of course, we changed three times before we arrived, Katya was always ill in transport. To my surprise, already on the fourth day of treatment, my daughter asked me to sign her up for a hairdresser, where we normally got there by minibus. During the treatment, they traveled by transport every day, Katya never said that she was ill.
\nHere she is a different person, she began to communicate with the staff of the Institute and with patients, and she began to smile, laugh, and show emotions. There was an interest in clothes – she began to choose what to wear. Since we are from other cities, we are forced to go to the nearest supermarket for groceries, she walks calmly, and feels good in the store. I wanted to go to McDonald’s, where I also felt great, relaxed, and didn’t hide from people. And after the treatment, my daughter asked to order a barbecue! She was in a great mood at the cafe.<\/p>\n
Thanks to the professor and the staff of the Institute for helping us. We signed up for the second stage of treatment, I want to see my Katya happy and cheerful again. I’m sure everything will be fine with us.
\nWe wish Katya and her mother good health and mutual understanding. May their recovery story end happily and be an example for other teens and their parents. Only now you have to work not only on yourself, on your moral condition, but also on the physical condition of the girl’s hands. Spring is coming and Katya will soon change her long-sleeved clothes for seasonal clothes.<\/p>\n
We asked Tatyana Svyatenko, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Vice-President of the Ukrainian Association of Dermatovenereologists and Cosmetologists, member of the European Academy of Dermatovenereology, Head of the Department of Skin and Venereal Diseases of the Dnipro State Medical University, to comment on the situation:
\n– Self-harm, which occurs due to auto-aggression, in medicine is called pathomymia. For this purpose, people can apply cuts, wounds, burns, bites to the skin. Pathomymia is characterized by damage to open parts of the body that are easily accessible for injury (arms, chest, legs, face). Pathomimia most often occurs in patients with severe psychopathy, or neurosis, but the patients themselves never seek help from a psychotherapist or psychiatrist, most often the diagnosis is made by a dermatologist, who sends him for a consultation with a neuropathologist or psychiatrist.<\/p>\n
Another subspecies of self-harm is dermatomania. This disease can be of several types:
\n– onychophagia – biting off nails and cuticles;
\n– intentional hair pulling;
\n– cheilomania – biting the tongue and lips.<\/p>\n
Most often, in people who are in a stressful situation for a long time, all types of dermatomania are observed simultaneously. The main symptom of the disease are scars of various shapes on the skin. Relatives may notice that patients who are prone to self-harm always carry sharp and cutting objects with them.
\nIt will not work to return the skin to its original smoothness after numerous cuts. Most often, after self-harm, whitish normotrophic scars remain, which do not disappear completely. If dark, dense scars remain on the body, their size and brightness can be reduced with the help of cosmetic procedures, physiotherapy, and preparations for home scar correction.<\/p>\n
A more accurate diagnosis can be made by a doctor. He will examine the places of damage, determine the type of scars and offer the best scheme for their elimination. Self-medication is not worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\nRecently, parents of teenagers who have become addicted to the now fashionable self-harm are increasingly turning to us for help. One of these patients completed the first stage of treatment at our Institute. The mother of the child says that before that I had a healthy daughter, she developed normally, she was an excellent student until the 8th grade, and she knows English very well. And after a month of distance learning, she began to complain that she did not know how to communicate with classmates, and didn't want to go to school. It got to the point that he studies for two weeks, then he gets sick for two weeks, feels bad, misses classes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1428],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[2051,2896,2901,3395,3691,3770,3772,3937,4017,4026],"class_list":["post-13435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n