Who Self-Harms?

In any circumstance, it is difficult, if not impossible, to categorise people into groups according to their characteristics , and this goes for "the type" of people who injure themselves. There is a wide variety of people who self-injure although several factors have been described as common in the backgrounds of those who repeatedly harm themselves.

These factors include : -

In response to the question of "who is likely to harm themselves?", a general answer would be that although certain characteristics may be common, it is impossible to say that one person is more likely to self-harm than another because people respond to different situations in different ways.