selfinduced

Selfinduced is an adjective meaning produced by oneself or caused by one’s own actions, often referring to effects or conditions that originate from the subject rather than from external sources. The term is used across disciplines to describe phenomena that arise from the agent itself, including physiological, psychological, and physical contexts. In many publications, the more common form is self-induced or hyphenated self-induced, but some domains write the compound as a single word.

In medical and psychological contexts, self-induced symptoms are those created or amplified by the patient. This can occur consciously or unconsciously and is a focus of differential diagnosis when distinguishing genuine pathology from symptoms that may be self-generated. Examples include self-induced vomiting in eating disorders or self-inflicted pain reports. Factitious disorder, in which individuals deliberately produce or feign symptoms to assume the sick role, is a related concept. Clinical handling emphasizes patient safety and careful assessment rather than judgment.

In physics and electrical engineering, self-induction (often described with the adjective “self-induced”) refers to electromagnetic effects produced by a circuit’s own changing current. A self-induced electromotive force opposes the initial current change and is proportional to the time rate of change of current and the circuit’s inductance, in accordance with Lenz’s law. This concept is fundamental to inductors, transformers, and many circuit analyses.

Etymology and usage notes: derived from self plus induced; variants include hyphenated and, less commonly, the unhyphenated or single-word form “selfinduced.” The term is specialized and its meaning depends on context.