This article identified diagnostic predictors of NSSID within a veteran sample. It represents the first examination of the association between NSSID and psychiatric disorders among veterans. The findings shed light on psychiatric disorders associated with lifetime NSSID in veterans, with special consideration toward obsessive-compulsive disorder as a risk factor for NSSID.

Diagnostic Correlates of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Disorder Among Veterans with Psychiatric Disorders

Cluster B personality disorders such as: 
- Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
- Depression
- Eating Disorders
are at the strongest risk for NSSI. 

However, NSSI is also prevalent among individuals suffering from:
- Anxiety disorders 
- Substance use disorders 
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Individuals with NSSID are more likely to meet diagnostic criteria for multiple psychiatric disorders compared with individuals without NSSID. In addition BPD and depression are the most consistent diagnostic predictors of NSSID. 


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When NSSI behavior occurs on five or more occasions on five different days in a given year, for the purpose of emotion regulation or the resolution of one’s interpersonal difficulties and cause clinically significant distress and/or impairment.

Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Disorder

Patel, T. A., Mann, A., Blakey, S. M., Aunon, F. M., Calhoun, P. S., Beckham, J. C., & Kimbrel, N. A. (2021). Diagnostic Correlates of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Disorder among Veterans with Psychiatric Disorders. Psychiatry research, 296, 113672. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113672


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