About Self Injury
Descriptions of what self injury is and isn’t. I’ve split the links into three sections: Single page descriptions, booklets and more comprehensive sites. The single pages are nice if you need fast facts or something to hand out to friends and family.
Single Pages & Fact Sheets
Booklets
Sites
Reslife.net has a presentation available on their crisis intervention page: Self-Injury: It Hurts So Good (PowerPoint presentation, HTML version available).
Single Pages & Fact Sheets
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Self-injury: A Quick Guide to the Basics
A quick primer on self injury from Deb Martinson’s site.
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Self-Mutilation/Cutting
One of the better single-page introduction to self injury I have come
across. It describes the methods, demographics etc. and has a reasonable
list of resources.
- Adolescent Self-Harm – An introduction from American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.
- Deliberate self-harm in young people – A factsheet from The Royal College of Psychiatrists. Part of the Mental Health and Growing Up series.
- Where do self-harming behaviors come from in BPD? – Talks about the links between BPD and self injury.
- “I Keep Cutting Myself and I Can’t Stop!” – A factsheet from Coolnurse.
- Self-harm – From the Pale Reflections eating Disorder Community.
- Self-Injury: A Search For Understanding – An introduction to self injury from Crisis Counselors. You can call their 24 hour counseling service on 1-561-615-4029.
- Self-Injury in Adolescents – Fact sheet from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
- Self-Injury: Why Some Teens Hurt Themselves – FAQ-like introduction to self injury. Part of the 4Girls site.
- Self-mutilation – From the International Child and Youth Care Network reference library.
- What is self-injury? – Deb’s ‘A Quick Guide…’ published on another site.
Booklets
Remember to visit The Student Counseling Virtual Pamphlet Collection (unabridged version) — information on self injury is in the impulse control category.
- Male Self-injury The text from a booklet published by Young Persons Advisory Service.
- Women and self-injury booklet series Booklets from the Bristol Crisis Service for Women.
- Worried about self-injury? A booklet in pdf format from YoungMinds. Aimed at young people.
Sites
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Healthy Mind
BBC has a nice minisite on the topic.
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The Hidden Truth
Offers the author’s personal experiences and a brief general description
of self injury. Has some interesting sections on how to stop. Lists a
lot of interesting answers to a self injury questionnaire hosted on the
site.
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Kharre’s Home
Kharre’s site is an excellent introduction to self injury for both the
self injurer and his/her family and friends.
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Secrets Swollen So Sore
Online version of a quite good self-help manual.
- Cutters – An essay-style introduction to self injury and a nice section on how friends can help self injurers.
- International Cutters United – Describes self injury and has a self help section for people who self injure.
- Mental Health In The UK – Information about mental health issues. Has information on anxiety, depression, self-harm etc.
- My Friend — My Enemy – Has a lot of useful information on how to handle self injury emergencies.
- Self-Harm – 8 pages of short descriptions of different aspects of self injury. Has an interesting theory on the cycle of self mutilation.
- Self-Injury – Tries to describe why people self injure. Includes coping tips.
- Self Injury Support – Includes first aid tips, resources, a book store and a support list.
- Self-Mutilation – A college student created this for one of his classes.
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