self-injurious

American  

[self-in-joor-ee-uhs] / ˈsɛlf ɪnˈdʒʊər i əs /

adjective

1. involving or engaging in injury to oneself, especially deliberately as a manifestation of mental or emotional distress; self-harming.

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Example Sentences

A team led by Volker Sturm at the University of Cologne proposed performing DBS on a 13-year-old boy with severe autism and self-injurious behavior.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 14, 2018

And this is just four days’ worth of tweets, all vainglorious and self-injurious.

From Washington Post • Jun. 8, 2017

In a statement, the FDA said that “state-of-the-art behavioral treatments, such as positive behavioral support, and medications can enable health care providers to find alternative approaches for curbing self-injurious or aggressive behaviors in their patients.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 21, 2016

For John Cosentino, 50, an intellectually disabled adult with profound autism and self-injurious behavior who does not speak, this routine has been his refuge.

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2015

Jefferson's Embargo Act of 1808 began its self-injurious career at the same time that the Peninsular War began to make the first injurious breach in Napoleon's Continental System.

From The War With the United States : A Chronicle of 1812 by Langton, H. H. (Hugh Hornby)