How to Use self-harm in a Sentence

self-harm

noun

• About a quarter of the orders arose from threats of self-harm.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2024
• Clark turned to self-harm in an effort to treat herself.
  — Kaitlyn Pohly, Hartford Courant, 7 Aug. 2024
• Still, in his world as in our own, the question of harm, and self-harm, is a serious one.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
• One man is in prison, while another is a girl wrestling with thoughts of self-harm.
  — Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2023
• But most would not be able to and would be at risk of substance abuse, self-harm or suicide.
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2023
• Her vision is to keep youth out of gangs and to keep veterans safe from self-harm.
  — Emmett Hall, Sun Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2023
• Suicidal ideation refers to thoughts of self-harm and suicide.
  — Carrie Madormo, Rn, Health, 6 July 2024
• There were troughs, like thoughts of self-harm and, later, suicide attempts.
  — Eli Cahan, The New Republic, 10 July 2023
• Help for thoughts of self-harm can be obtained by calling the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline 988.
  — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2024
• While most of the shootings involved assaults or self-harm, some were accidents, like Aaron's seemed to be.
  — Stephanie Colombini, NPR, 18 Apr. 2024
• During the interview, Pauley asked Meghan about her decision to open up about her own thoughts of self-harm.
  — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 4 Aug. 2024
• Without the proper treatment, people like Merit are at risk of self-harm.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Mar. 2024
• There were no gendarmes on Trump’s tail, no threat of violence or self-harm, no real suspense.
  — Paul Farhi, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2023
• The state found that one boy had to be taken to a hospital for self-harming after the ranch failed to give him his medication for 26 days.
  — Tyler Kingkade, NBC News, 21 Sep. 2023
• Suicide: when someone takes their own life in an intentional act of self-harm.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2024
• An acute change in mood that persists for weeks or is associated with thoughts of self-harm should not be ignored.
  — John Williamson, Fortune Well, 2 Mar. 2023
• As a teen, the Pitch Perfect actress struggled with anorexia, depression, and self-harm for nearly a decade.
  — Grace Gavilanes, Peoplemag, 1 May 2023
• Dry lips, acne and self-harm scars on her upper arms were all fabricated.
  — Lexi Carson, Variety, 17 May 2024
• The most likely explanation for the rise in teen depression, self-harm and suicide was the rise in these new technologies.
  — Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Apr. 2023
• But her bright, kind child began self-harming, with a suicide attempt at age 13 that ended in the hospital.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023
• The most compelling response is to look at charts that measure rates of anxiety and depression, self-harm, or suicide among teenagers.
  — Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 29 Mar. 2024
• As this week’s Supreme Court case reminds us, youth can be lured into extremism or self-harm via online content.
  — Patrick T. Brown, CNN, 25 Feb. 2023
• The number of adults sentenced to more than ten years in prison more than doubled—until the system caved in, overrun by violence, self-harm, drug use, and staff shortages.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• The state does not have a red-flag law, which would allow family members or friends to ask a court to take firearms away from a person thought to be at risk of self-harm or to pose a danger to others.
  — Perry Stein, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
• Maine does not have a red-flag law, which would allow family members or friends to ask a court to take firearms away from a person thought to be at risk of self-harm or to pose a danger to others.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 4 Nov. 2023
• Moms in mental distress are less likely to take great care of a newborn or go to the doctor themselves and are more likely to abuse substances or contemplate self-harm.
  — Jennifer Brookland, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2024
• If a teenage girl posts a picture depicting self-harm, Discord will remove the picture under its policies.
  — Casey Newton, The Verge, 20 Oct. 2023
• That was really interesting to me, because I’m covered in old self-harm scars.
  — Cat Zhang, Pitchfork, 11 Sep. 2023
• Last year, a coroner in Britain ruled that Instagram had contributed to the death of a teenager who took her own life after seeing thousands of images of self-harm on the platform.
  — Natasha Singer, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• Rural residents also have 1½ times the rates of ER visits for self-harm as urban residents.
  — Cheryl Platzman Weinstock, CBS News, 10 July 2023

Last Updated: 14 Sep 2024