title: Self-mortification
text: # Self-mortification
  
  Self-mortification may refer to:
  
  ## Voluntary pain or privation to oneself
  
  * in religious practice generally, mortification of the flesh
     * Mortification (theology)
     * Mortification in Catholic theology
  
  ## Involuntary
  
  * Sometimes used interchangeably with mortification of the self, personality disruption done to an individual in a total institution or a setting with similar characteristics
  