Background Adults with Tourette syndrome (ATS) face increased risks of self-injury behaviours (SIBs) and suicidality, yet research has largely focused on biological factors. Despite stigma being a ...

On February 6, the world will unite to bring attention to a harmful practice that still endangers girls and women across ...

What's in a Name? In Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare wrote the now infamous lines, "What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." Although Shakespeare ...

Dissociation is a common symptom in borderline personality disorder and is associated with an increased risk of suicidality and self-harm. Dialectical behavior therapist Anne Krause-Utz has written a ...

Everyone's diagnosing everyone with narcissism on the thinnest of criteria these days, but it turns out there is one way to detect a potential personality disorder in a person: their speech patterns.

Charlotte Entwistle has received funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Leverhulme Trust. Is it possible to spot personality dysfunction from someone’s ...

Objective To evaluate the completeness, consistency, and duplicity of self-mutilation reports among adolescents in Santa Catarina, from 2014 to 2023. Methods This study evaluated reports recorded in ...

Objective: Although non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) behaviors are particularly prevalent among adolescent outpatients with major depressive disorder (MDD), few studies have investigated the sex ...

In the final years of her life, Queen Elizabeth II's younger sister Princess Margaret suffered a serious burn injury insiders have since claimed was an act of "self-mutilation" brought on by her ...

Pea-sized brains grown in a lab have for the first time revealed the unique way neurons might misfire due to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, psychiatric ailments that affect millions of people ...

ChatGPT provided explicit instructions on how to cut one’s wrists and offered guidance on ritual bloodletting in a disturbing series of conversations documented by a journalist at The Atlantic and two ...

On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists. Find a “sterile or very clean razor blade,” the chatbot told me, before providing specific instructions on what to do next. “Look for a ...