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Information About Self Injury And Other Resources

Self-Injury: What is Cutting All About? ~ This alarming behavior encapsulates the heart and soul of the young person’s state of despair and leads him or her down a path of destruction, not only physically, but also emotionally and spiritually. Excellent three-part article.

Self-Mutilators Anonymous ~ 12-step support.

Short-term treatment and management of self-harm

SIARI (UK) ~ A valuable online resource for self-injurers, and for anyone interested in the complex phenomenon of self-injury. Site maintained by Jan Sutton, author of Healing the Hurt Within: Understand and Relieve the Suffering Behind Self-Destructive Behaviour.

Suffering in Silence ~ Almost 90% of self-injurers say they are discouraged from expressing emotions. Almost 50% report past physical or sexual abuse.

Counseling and Therapy ~ Brief descriptions of the methods mental health professionals use and/or recommend for working with troubled teens and their families. Links to counseling resources.

Covering the Pain ~ People who cut themselves do it to mask deep emotional trauma, and their numbers may be growing.

Cutting -- The New Anorexia

Deliberate self-harm in young people ~ Individuals who are harming themselves are struggling to cope and need help.

Abuse: Physical, Emotional, Sexual, Neglect

Are Suicide Attempters Who Self-Mutilate a Unique Population?

The Behavioral Treatment of Self-Mutilation ~ Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an effective therapy in reducing self-injurious behavior.

Fears of self-harm prompt drug curb for young ~ A study finds the antidepressant, Effexor, can cause hostility, suicidal ideas and self-harm.

The Long Road Back From Bleeding

Lysamena Project on Self-Injury

Mental Disorders Are Not Diseases

Penetrating the Skin ~ A new site about self-injury by a self-injurer.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

The Razor's Edge ~ Why even Christian teens aren't immune from the epidemic of self-injury — and what you can do.

The Relationship Between Eating Disorders and Self-Injury

Secret Cutting: And the Pain Behind Self Injury

Secret Shame ~ Self-injury information and support.

Self-Harm: The Damaging Facts

Self-Injurious Behavior (pdf)

Self-Injury, Abuse, and Trauma Directory

Self-Injury Behavior: Emerging Trends and Treatment

Self-Injury: Maladaptive Behavior

Self-Injury No Longer Rare Among Teens

Self- Injury: A Poorly Understood Problem

Understanding Self-Injury

Who Self-Injures? ~Typically, the self-injurer is female, in her mid-20s to early 30s, and has been hurting herself since her teens. She tends to be middle- or upper-middle-class, intelligent, well-educated, and from a background of physical and/or sexual abuse or from a home with at least one alcoholic parent. Eating disorders were often reported.

Why We Cut and Burn Ourselves

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