An analysis of more than 350,000 posts on the social media platform Reddit found many individuals used language to discuss non-suicidal self-injury similar to language used in diagnoses of substance use disorder.
“Non-suicidal self-injury is often private and hidden, and like substance use disorders, is highly stigmatized and can lead to significant harm if left undiagnosed and untreated,” Nora Volkow, MD, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, said in a press release.
More than 350,000 posters on a forum dedicated to the discussion of self-harm between 2010 to 2019, were