Examples of self-inflicted

• Whether self-inflicted or caused by others, physical pain was a way of affirming the boundaries of identity.

• Some of the wounds may have been self-inflicted.

• A fifth, self-inflicted injuries, is usually a consequence of mental illness.

• The 1990 worldwide incidence of self-inflicted injuries or those due to violent actions (excluding war) toward others was 225.4 per 100,000.

• Costs consist of self-inflicted damages plus compensation paid, minus compensation received.

• Here the ' punishment ' is in a sense self-inflicted.

• Monastic self-inflicted pain has nothing to do with it.

• He writes mostly with amused detachment, sustaining a gently ironic tone until brought up short by the harsh reality of self-inflicted death.