The flagellation is to become a physical injury as a tactic of psychological distress relief, often the psychological pain becomes so difficult to drive, which is chosen by damage to the body as a test to control the situation. This naturally calms down even for a few minutes. The effect it has at the time of self-harm, which is when they voluntarily injure themselves, depends on each person and the situation they are living. Self- flagellation in many situations can produce "calm", in others an "awakening", it also makes you feel "real" to a disintegrated entity that thinks that it no longer feels anything in life.
These self-injury systems change a lot from person to person due to cuts, burns, blows, throwing oneself out of the hair, fragmenting a limb, among others, and it also changes due to the depth and magnitude of the wound. Many people cut themselves very deep, others prefer to scratch their skin, but nevertheless the size of the injury is not connected with the psychological pain of the individual, that means that if a person scratches himself, it does not mean that he suffers less than the person that cuts deep.
The magnitude of the wound can be expanded according to the time in which the entity injures itself, which is when the entity begins with scratches, visible cuts, deep cuts and so on. It is a coercive and addictive behavior like drugs when it leads to a progressive increase in use.
In the area of self-flagellation, a study showed that women are more in favor of resorting to self-injury, it can also develop between pre-adolescence that in general, whoever self-injures can have it in secret, trying not to know about the pain that suffers, although there are very diverse behaviors.
