The phrase "affect themselves" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how actions or situations influence individuals personally or emotionally.
Example: "The constant stress at work can significantly affect themselves in their personal lives."
Alternatives: "impact themselves" or "influence themselves".
You get a sense from this story of one family how poverty and disease and hunger affect themselves; and how a country in dire straights won't have work for people, they then can't afford to buy food.
Nick Lowles, head of Hope not Hate, said: "Our data shows a clear shift in public opinion against Brexit and people's growing anxiety over how leaving the EU will affect themselves and their families.
Although some may care what happens to others and think themselves fair minded, most look at how things affect themselves.
When someone from a social network gives an example of when an individual was at their best, they provide a concrete example that an individual's actions can positively affect themselves and the people around them.
Why is it they can't see how this would affect themselves?
For many others, it is making even greater changes that will affect themselves and their families.
Here, people ask for and get for information, help, and advice about illnesses affecting themselves and their loved ones.
MPAs may have a role in mitigation through effects on carbon sequestration, affect interactions between climatic effects and other drivers and be affected themselves as the distributions of protected species change over time.
But more than a 10th of them reported acute stress symptoms (like insomnia or nightmares) right after the attacks, and over the next three years more than 40percentt said they kept worrying about a terrorist attack affecting themselves or a family member.
Besides their users, Gawker has been heavily affected themselves.
Our affects themselves can be understood in this way, which further diminishes their power over us.
