Healio (3/25, Herpen) reported, “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,” investigators concluded. The findings were published online March 21 in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions. “ A majority (76.8%) of users endorsed at least two adapted SUD criteria in their posts, indicative of mild, moderate, or severe addiction. The most frequently endorsed criteria were urges or cravings (67.6%), escalating severity or tolerance (46.7%), and NSSI that is particularly hazardous. User-level addictive features positively predicted number of methods used for NSSI, number of psychiatric disorders, and particularly hazardous NSSI, but not suicidality.”
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— “Social media posters describe non-suicidal self-harm in similar terms to addiction “Robert Herpen, Healio, March 25, 2022