self-harm

From self- +‎ harm.

self-harm (uncountable, abbreviation SH)

(mental health) The deliberate nonsuicidal injuring of one's own body.
Synonyms: self-injury, self-mutilation; see also Thesaurus:self-harm
- 2025 November 26, Robert Booth, “ChatGPT firm blames boy’s suicide on ‘misuse’ of its technology”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:
  It [OpenAI] said that its terms of use prohibited asking ChatGPT for advice about self-harm and highlighted a limitation of liability provision that states “you will not rely on output as a sole source of truth or factual information”.

deliberate injuring of oneself

Bulgarian: самонараняване (samonaranjavane)
French: automutilation (fr) f, scarification (fr) f
Georgian: თვითდაზიანება (tvitdazianeba)
German: Selbstverletzung (de) f, Selbstverletzendes Verhalten n
Hindi: आत्मक्षति f (ātmakṣati), आत्महिंसा (hi) f (ātmahinsā)
Japanese: 自傷 (ja) (jishō)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: selvskading (no) m or f
Polish: samookaleczanie n, samookaleczenie (pl) n
Portuguese: automutilação (pt) f
Romanian: automutilare (ro) f
Russian: самоповрежде́ние (ru) n (samopovreždénije), селфха́рм (ru) m (selfxárm)
Spanish: autolesión (es) f, autoagresión f, automutilación f
Swedish: självskada c
Ukrainian: селфхарм m (selfxárm)

self-harm (third-person singular simple present self-harms, present participle self-harming, simple past and past participle self-harmed)