self-mutilating

I prefer to keep my pain private and as a form of self-mutilating protest I am refusing to sit up waiting for the Football League Show until Middlesbrough win again.

Down go the fairy lights and down go Middlesbrough's promotion hopes | Harry Pearson 2012

Mulligan's abused, possibly incestuous, self-mutilating sister has a character arc that goes from bad to worse.

Thelma Adams: Naughty, Naughty: Carey Mulligan's Nude in Shame, Too Thelma Adams 2011

"At the rate they're going, a platoon of television producers would rush to bring us every bloody self-mutilating moment," he wrote.

Charlie Sheen, a star on the verge of a nervous breakdown, grips and revulses America 2011

He is a self-mutilating wreck having a hard time with his girlfriend.

Spur of the Moment 2010

"Psychologist Lucy Beresford tells Daily Politics Gordon Brown is 'deeply insecure' and bringing Peter Mandelson back was" Freudian "bordering on" self-mutilating behaviour "."

Archive 2008-10-01 Not a sheep 2008

Jenny, the lone elephant at the Dallas Zoo, is often doped up on mood-altering drugs in order to control her aggression and self-mutilating behaviors.

Zoos: Boredom behind bars 2009

That Ashley was prone to self-mutilating behavior, including cutting her arms and thighs.

The Promised World Lisa Tucker 2009

That Ashley was prone to self-mutilating behavior, including cutting her arms and thighs.

The Promised World Lisa Tucker 2009

They were twittering their (badly spelled) grief straight into CNN, straight into my hotel bedroom -- grief for a psychopathically arrested, self-hating, self-mutilating pop star they'd never met and were never likely to.

Christina Patterson: Here's How We Know Our Feelings Are Real 2009

Extensive testing and multiple clinical reports showed unequivocally that Michael required a small, structured therapeutic day school, not only to minimize his at-risk behaviors (he is self-mutilating, punching brick walls, cutting himself, stealing, and threatening suicide) but also to enable him to become a happy and usefully whole human being.

Beth Feldman: A Cry for Help 2009