ArticleJournal of psychopathology and clinical science2023
Pain before, during, and after nonsuicidal self-injury: Findings from a large web study.
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- Alcohol use prior to episodes of nonsuicidal self-injury in women with borderline personality disorder participating in a randomized clinical trial of dialectical behavior therapy.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2025Trial
- The Impact of Emotional Arousal on Physical Pain and Numbness in Individuals Who Engage in Non-Suicidal Self-Injury.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2026Article
- Psychosocial predictors of persistent non-suicidal self-injury in adolescents with major depressive disorder: a longitudinal study.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2026Article
- What predicts suicidality among people who self-injure? Evidence for acquired capability via pain habituation and NSSI severity.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Article
- Neurobiological mechanisms and treatment of empathic pain in nonsuicidal self-injury.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Acute, Chronic, and Everyday Physical Pain in Borderline Personality Disorder.Current psychiatry reports · 2024Review
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Abstract
Competing models suggest that physical pain may play an important role in nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) via pain onset or pain offset, or that pain may be absent (analgesia). Few studies have tested these models in the same sample or examined factors that could explain differences in NSSI pain experience. We assessed 1,630 individuals with NSSI histories in an online survey. We descriptively examined pain during NSSI and tested preregistered hypotheses that NSSI frequency, NSSI severity, borderline personality disorder (BPD) features, emotional pain, and dissociation during NSSI are associated with experiencing less NSSI pain. Exploratorily, we also tested whether self-punishment motives were associated with less NSSI pain. Almost all participants reported recent and frequent NSSI. Participants were heterogenous in their report of NSSI pain. We found minimal support for analgesia (reported by only 4.3% of participants). More participants reported pain onset than offset, but offset was associated with reductions in emotional pain. Emotional pain was elevated prior to NSSI and decreased significantly during and after NSSI. We found that higher dissociation during NSSI was associated with less NSSI pain. Contrary to hypotheses, NSSI severity, emotional pain prior to NSSI, and self-punishment motives were associated with
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