Mental images, entrapment and affect in young adults meeting criteria of nonsuicidal self-injury disorder (NSSID) – a daily diary study

ConclusionsThe study provides information on feasibility and methodological challenges such as intervention effects of the diary. NSSI-images may be common among individuals who engage in NSSI; they may capture ambivalent (positive and negative) appraisals of NSSI and thus play a role in NSSI and possibly a disorder such as NSSID. The preoccupation with NSSI (Criterion C of NSSID in DSM-5) may as well be imagery-based.RegistrationThe study was retrospectively registered with the DRKS under the number DRKS00011854.
Source: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation - Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research