Sentence examples for self abusive from inspiring English sources

What if you didn't engage in negative self talk, self abusive talk?

Avoid negativity and self abusive behavior such as drinking, smoking, or drugs.

This abuse creates a loss of trust, feelings of guilt, and self-abusive behavior in the child that is then carried into adulthood.

Many children were self-abusive — hitting themselves, biting themselves, poking themselves in the eye.

He was a tragedy of his own wilful, self-abusive resolve.

But "one of the problems that children like that who have no language have is frustration, they become self-abusive".

The Mayan apocalypse is an opportunity to contemplate death in a relatively non-threatening, non-self-abusive way.

"He says no, he says yes, he's not as self-abusive as he was before," she said.

Many of these patients, perhaps a majority, were also retarded; many had seizures; many had violent self-abusive behaviors, such as head-banging; many had other neurological problems.

People with autism present myriad challenges: They can sometimes be violent, sometimes are self-abusive, suffer psychological meltdowns, or behave in many socially unacceptable ways, to say the least.

And her movement, rearing and collapsing this way and that, has a self-abusive quality that's all the more alarming when you see how it gets locked into recycling the same material.