My first introduction to self-harm in autism was with headbanging. While headbanging is a relatively uncommon version of self-harm in the general population, for autistic individuals, headbanging is ...

As many as one in six teenagers have self-harmed at some point in their lives. As well as being an indicator of emotional pain, self-harm is also the best-known predictor of death by suicide—yet ...

Speaking on BBC Radio 4′s Autism Curve this month, Francesca Happé, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at King’s College London, said: “An increasing number of people are choosing to self-identify ...

Mental health is a very fragile yet very important aspect of life. It needs constant maintenance and care or else every other part of one’s life will be greatly affected. As a result, there has been a ...

Emergency department visits for self-harm have spiked since the pandemic. Experts explain the psychology behind the behavior and how to overcome it. Megan walked the halls of her suburban Houston ...

Content warning: this story includes graphic descriptions of dangerous self-harm behaviors. The Google-funded AI company Character.AI is hosting chatbots designed to engage the site’s largely underage ...

For a long time, clinicians have joked about “Dr Google” and the unnecessary scaremongering a simple online search can sometimes cause. As artificial intelligence (AI) continues its rapid integration ...