The term Self harm is mainly used in the United Kingdom where as in America they use self injury self mutilation and self inflicted violence self inflicted behaviours. It has many other way to say self harming.
Self harm is the deliberated damaging of the body tissue, more often than not without conscious intend to commit suicide, it’s a way of making an emotional pain become a physical pain of a way of coping. Of course self harm isn’t a cause of an illness it is a symptom of the matter (e.g. depression).
Little is known about self harming even though it is very common. Self harming is a way of expressing one’s deep distress without having the words of communication, it is often thought as the inner scream or the crying process, This self inflicted injury could viewed as symbolic way of expressed though self injurious actions where they can be dealt with in more visible ways.