Young people who choose self destruction to get back at family?

Question

I'm looking for a psychological view, or maybe one of you have helped with this kind of situation before.

I've noticed this is becoming more of a common problem among teens and young adults, who will use self destructive addictions, such as anorexia, to lash out to their family and friends. I use anorexia as the example because it's both a self-vanity problem and a serious health condition. From what I've seen, they use the anger they have towards their loved ones as motivation to continue their path of self-destruction.

What do you feel is the true cause and/or reason for this? It's more than wanting attention I think. Or is it usually used solely as revenge?

Answer 1

I think the people who use self destuctive habits do it because they can not control there emotions and they relize that by harming themselves their uncontrolable negative feelings will go away very very fast. It also make you focus not on what is wrong emotionaly but physical pain therefore is also something to concentrate on.

Answer 2

1. they think they've lived a sucky life or long enough and then parents just happens to give them more pressure, when all those pressure builds they have these "bad thing happened to them non-stopping going through head" after they try to not regret the life they lived so they choose to die younger and trying to release from this hellhole.

thats life and they don't want to deal with it.