- An example self-mutilating behavior is cutting the skin until blood has been drawn.
- Self-mutilating behavior is a symptom seen in both men and women with various psychiatric disorders, but the majority of those who self-mutilate are women with borderline personality disorder.
The most extreme case seen by this scribe was a man with insulin dependent diabes mellitus and end-stage renal disease requiring dialysis to maintain proper body fluids and salts, bit his fingers off.
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