The student nurse realizes that individuals who self-mutilate may:
1. Process feeling verbally if someone listens.
2. Never learn how to control their urges.
3. Cut for attention only.
4. Have difficulty processing feelings.
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Rationale: Many self-destructive people have lifelong difficulties communicating their needs to others. Some people cannot express their needs or feelings; or, when they do, they do not obtain the results they hoped for. For them, self-mutilation or suicide becomes a clear and direct, if violent, form of communication. Many of these individuals use self-mutilation—such as cutting themselves, burning themselves with cigarettes, burning themselves on a stove, pulling out their hair, biting their fingernails into the cuticles—to deal with anxiety and distress.
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