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Self-injury and people with learning disabilities.
Self-injury is when people do things to hurt themselves
- People might scratch themselves.
- People might cut their skin.
- People might hit themselves.
- People might bite themselves.
- People might take too much medication.
Pauline Heslop works at the Norah Fry Research Centre at the University of Bristol. Fiona Macaulay works at Bristol Crisis Service for Women.
Together they have been finding out about people with learning disabilities who hurt themselves. Pauline and Fiona talked to 25 people with learning disabilities who hurt themselves. This is what they found out.
1. Self-injury was different for everyone. People hurt themselves for different reasons. How much people hurt themselves would often depend on what is happening in their lives.
2. Some people hurt themselves because of difficult things that were happening now. Some people said they hurt themselves because of difficult things that were happening now. This is what people sa...
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