From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishself-inflictedˌself-inˈflicted adjective CAUSEself-inflicted pain, problems, illnesses etc are those you have caused yourself self-inflicted gunshot wounds Stress is often self-inflicted.
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self-inflicted• Stress and anxiety are often self-inflicted.• The computer-equipped force suffered self-inflicted casualties more than three times higher than those in previous exercises without computers.• Farming's image looks like getting another damaging self-inflicted dent as a result of what the public perceive as wholesale tax dodging.• Redman died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest.• They can also help a floundering organization extricate itself from the depths of a self-inflicted malaise.• So, with a self-inflicted slap on the wrist, I leave you.• Yet this epidemic of self-inflicted slaughter seems to pass us by with little front page news in the national Press.• An attempt to make the change will likely prove to be another self-inflicted wound for Republicans.• How could she possibly know that he was wading in blood from a self-inflicted wound? 