@inproceedings{giorgi-etal-2022-nonsuicidal,
title = "Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Substance Use Disorders: A Shared Language of Addiction",
author = "Giorgi, Salvatore and
Himelein-wachowiak, Mckenzie and
Habib, Daniel and
Ungar, Lyle and
Curtis, Brenda",
editor = "Zirikly, Ayah and
Atzil-Slonim, Dana and
Liakata, Maria and
Bedrick, Steven and
Desmet, Bart and
Ireland, Molly and
Lee, Andrew and
MacAvaney, Sean and
Purver, Matthew and
Resnik, Rebecca and
Yates, Andrew",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology",
month = jul,
year = "2022",
address = "Seattle, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.clpsych-1.15/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.clpsych-1.15",
pages = "177--183",
abstract = "Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI), or the deliberate injuring of one?s body without intending to die, has been shown to exhibit many similarities to substance use disorders (SUDs), including population-level characteristics, impulsivity traits, and comorbidity with other mental disorders. Research has further shown that people who self-injure adopt language common in SUD recovery communities (e.g., {\textquotedblleft}clean{\textquotedblright}, {\textquotedblleft}relapse{\textquotedblright}, {\textquotedblleft}addiction,{\textquotedblright} and celebratory language about sobriety milestones). In this study, we investigate the shared language of NSSI and SUD by comparing discussions on public Reddit forums related to self-injury and drug addiction. To this end, we build a set of LDA topics across both NSSI and SUD Reddit users and show that shared language across the two domains includes SUD recovery language in addition to other themes common to support forums (e.g., requests for help and gratitude). Next, we examine Reddit-wide posting activity and note that users posting in \textit{r/selfharm} also post in many mental health-related subreddits, while users of drug addiction related subreddits do not, despite high comorbidity between NSSI and SUDs. These results show that while people who self-injure may contextualize their disorder as an addiction, their posting habits demonstrate comorbidities with other mental disorders more so than their counterparts in recovery from SUDs. These observations have clinical implications for people who self-injure and seek support by sharing their experiences online."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Substance Use Disorders: A Shared Language of Addiction
%A Giorgi, Salvatore
%A Himelein-wachowiak, Mckenzie
%A Habib, Daniel
%A Ungar, Lyle
%A Curtis, Brenda
%Y Zirikly, Ayah
%Y Atzil-Slonim, Dana
%Y Liakata, Maria
%Y Bedrick, Steven
%Y Desmet, Bart
%Y Ireland, Molly
%Y Lee, Andrew
%Y MacAvaney, Sean
%Y Purver, Matthew
%Y Resnik, Rebecca
%Y Yates, Andrew
%S Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology
%D 2022
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Seattle, USA
%F giorgi-etal-2022-nonsuicidal
%X Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI), or the deliberate injuring of one?s body without intending to die, has been shown to exhibit many similarities to substance use disorders (SUDs), including population-level characteristics, impulsivity traits, and comorbidity with other mental disorders. Research has further shown that people who self-injure adopt language common in SUD recovery communities (e.g., “clean”, “relapse”, “addiction,” and celebratory language about sobriety milestones). In this study, we investigate the shared language of NSSI and SUD by comparing discussions on public Reddit forums related to self-injury and drug addiction. To this end, we build a set of LDA topics across both NSSI and SUD Reddit users and show that shared language across the two domains includes SUD recovery language in addition to other themes common to support forums (e.g., requests for help and gratitude). Next, we examine Reddit-wide posting activity and note that users posting in r/selfharm also post in many mental health-related subreddits, while users of drug addiction related subreddits do not, despite high comorbidity between NSSI and SUDs. These results show that while people who self-injure may contextualize their disorder as an addiction, their posting habits demonstrate comorbidities with other mental disorders more so than their counterparts in recovery from SUDs. These observations have clinical implications for people who self-injure and seek support by sharing their experiences online.
%R 10.18653/v1/2022.clpsych-1.15
%U https://aclanthology.org/2022.clpsych-1.15/
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.clpsych-1.15
%P 177-183
Markdown (Informal)
[Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Substance Use Disorders: A Shared Language of Addiction](https://aclanthology.org/2022.clpsych-1.15/) (Giorgi et al., CLPsych 2022)
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