Self Injury

    About.com
    Links to Cutting, Branding & Self Injury. Help when internal psychological struggles turn outward.

    Cutting: The New Teen Anorexia
    Article on cutting behavior.

    Cutting
    Cutting is a physical release of overwhelming emotional stress...

    Essortment.com
    Explanation of self mutilation and other self abusive behaviors?

    KidzWorld
    Dear Dish-It: Depression - My Friend Cuts Herself Article

    Lysamena Project on Self-Injury
    Christian-based self-injury resources. A compassionate site providing helpful information about self inflicted violence.

    Psyke.org
    Articles, discussion boards, personal stories, pictures, coping tips and poetry dealing with self-injury and suicide.

    Self-Injury, Abuse and Trauma Directory
    An extensive one-stop listing of self-injury, abuse and trauma resources on the Web.

    Self-Injury: A Struggle
    Personal story of living with self-injury. Information on self-injury, quotes, poetry, personal stories, message board, chat.

    SI - Secret Pain
    Self-injury, a website based on personal experience, including personal account and distractions and diversions.

    SIARI
    Information and support for self-injurers and their supporters. Includes creative works of self-injurers, message boards, a moderated online support group for helpers, bookstore, articles and fact sheets, and extensive list of resources on self-injury and related issues.

    Soaring On Enchanted Wings
    Resources, information, support, self-harm help, crisis centers, hotlines, and links on suicide and self-harm.

    Teen Self Injury/Teen Cutting
    The deliberate harm, mutilation, injury of the body or a body part, not with the intent to commit suicide. The harm, injury or mutilation serves a purpose and involves cutting, burning, scratching, hitting, biting, kicking, head banging and pulling hair out.

    TeenHealth
    Cutting is a type of self-injury, or SI. Cutting is more common among girls, but guys sometimes self-injure, too...


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