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Self-Injury Awareness Day 2024 - March 01
March 6 , 2024
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- This day is observed with the intention of helping people who inflict self-harm on themselves and are too scared of asking for professional help.
- It helps in raising awareness of the importance of addressing this unhealthy behavioural pattern and getting help to the patients as soon as possible.
- In the early 20th century, self-harm was declared as one of the symptoms of mental illness.
- In 1995, the first International Conference on Self-Mutilation was organised.
- In 1997, the International Society for the Study of Self-Injury was established.
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