The phrase "abuse of self" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing self-destructive behaviors or negative self-treatment.
Example: "The therapist emphasized the importance of recognizing the patterns of abuse of self that can lead to mental health issues."
Alternatives: "self-neglect" or "self-harm".
Townend and Bennett conclude: A new system of regulation should not only end the abuse of self-regulation by the News of the World, it should also consider whether newspapers ought to be independently held to account for their editorial decisions regarding "newsworthiness".
Although the identity of the reviewers is not disclosed and vice-versa (which removes the potential influence of the involved countries, institutions or eventual personal conflicts), the process sometimes fails, because the method, style of writing, acknowledgments and abuse of self-citations can suggest the source.
Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love.
According to Simon Blackburn, in his new book, "Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love" (Princeton), such a pronouncement is a close cousin of what Margaret Thatcher called the TINA rule: There Is No Alternative.
In fact, I came to understand that addiction to positive thinking precariously ignores the dark side of humanity and in doing so, conceals the shadow of manipulation, abuse of power, self-righteous arrogance, and compulsive control that lurk beneath the still waters of "living in the light".
However, based on the cross-sectional design of the majority of such studies, including the present one, we cannot conclude whether drug abuse is a mean of self- medication against depressive symptoms, or if drug abuse leads to depressive symptoms.
Or someone like the music critic Lester Bangs, who found himself, in the seventies, using Dylan's album "Blood on the Tracks" as "an instrument of self abuse" — something he put on after every heartbreak, a personal soundtrack of misery.
Suicidal ideation is normally perceived as a problem of self abuse.
Do not encourage cutting or any forms of self abuse.
Countless adults are victims of abuse through self-neglect, and institutional abuse often receives the most media attention; however, by far the most common abusers of the elderly are family members, especially spouses and adult children.
We know from the Learning Disability Census that people in inpatient services are at significant risk of abuse, self harm, being excessively restrained and over-medicated.
