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Mental health and self-harm

The motivations and consequences of self-harm in mental health contexts

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Feb 7, 2026

Can a depressed mind automatically kill the body?

The short answer: in the sense of an immediate, intrinsic mechanism that causes death, but clinical depression substantially raises the risk of dying through both intentional self-harm (suicide) and i...

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