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SELF-MUTILATION

INTRODUCTION-SELF-MUTILATION?

• Harming your own body
• Escape
• "Are you ok?"

Some people will burn themselves with cigarettes just to feel the pain

THESIS
Self-harm leads to lives being taken away, serious depression, and many disorders, but certain people find it fine to do.

HISTORY

• Foot binding
• Neck rings
• FGM
• Hair-pulling

FOOT BINDING

• Form of self-mutilation
• Break the bones
• Put them under the sole of the foot
• On purpose
• Small feet = beauty

NECK RINGS

• Form of self-harm
• Put rings around their necks
• Make their necks longer
• Considered beauty
• On purpose

FGM(FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION)

• Form of self-mutilation
• Has a lot of myths
• Someone stitches a woman's vagina shut

HAIR-PULLING

• Type of self-harm
• Pyschological disorder
• "Trichotillomania"

OPPOSING ARGUMENT

MY THESIS
Self-harm leads to lives being taken away, serious depression, and many disorders, but certain people find it fine to do.

OPPOSING THESIS
Self-harm is fine to do and helps people in many ways.

EXAMPLE

• Makes you feel like you have control over your body
• WHY WRONG?
• may have control, but more dangerous
• Could kill yourself

ARGUMENT

• Someone may feel worse about themselves
• Physically, mentally, emotionally
• Leads to lives being taken away

SOMEONE MAY FEEL WORSE ABOUT THEMSELVES

• Scars
• Guilty(relief goes away)

HURTS PHYSICALLY, MENTALLY, AND EMOTIONALLY

LEADS TO LIVES BEING TAKEN AWAY

• May cut too deep
• Addiction

TRUE STORY

SOLUTIONS

• Therapy
• Medication
• Support(friends and family)

COGNITIVE THERAPY

• Helps people "solve" their problems

INTERPERSONAL THERAPY

INTRAPERSONAL THERAPY

CONCLUSION

• I personally think..
• I know people who have self-harmed...

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