Self-Injury Support Group
Whether you or someone you know or love struggles with self-injury, this is the community to discuss your experience, find support, meet others going through the same, and get advice on how to stop. Working together, we can help find alternative coping skills to reduce the urge to self-harm.
Some extra info:
-SI has an addictive quality
-Each time SI occurs, reinforces the belief that SI is the only way to solve problems
-Impulses to self-injure may last throughout adulthood
-Ice Cube Therapy
Holding ice cubes in hands to feel pain
-Line Therapy
Drawing lines on ones body with a red marker
-Impulse Control Log
-Time and location
-Current feelings
-Current situation
- -Consequences of engaging in SI
-Issue SI is communicating
-Action taken
- -Outcome
-15-minute Contract
-Contract (with self or others) to wait 15-minutes before self-injuring
-Utilize pre-made list of diversional and tension-reducing activities
-At end of 15-minutes, praise self
-If impulse/urge persists, new contract
-Call crisis line or other support if believe cannot make the 15-minutes
OTHER ALTERNATIVES:
Go to the mall or restaurant
Call a friend or therapist
Journal, write poems/songs
Exercise
Make mood tapes
Watch a FUNNY movie
Paint or draw
Cook or do chores
Play HAPPY music
Hopes this helps you.
-SI has an addictive quality
-Each time SI occurs, reinforces the belief that SI is the only way to solve problems
-Impulses to self-injure may last throughout adulthood
-Ice Cube Therapy
Holding ice cubes in hands to feel pain
-Line Therapy
Drawing lines on ones body with a red marker
-Impulse Control Log
-Time and location
-Current feelings
-Current situation
- -Consequences of engaging in SI
-Issue SI is communicating
-Action taken
- -Outcome
-15-minute Contract
-Contract (with self or others) to wait 15-minutes before self-injuring
-Utilize pre-made list of diversional and tension-reducing activities
-At end of 15-minutes, praise self
-If impulse/urge persists, new contract
-Call crisis line or other support if believe cannot make the 15-minutes
OTHER ALTERNATIVES:
Go to the mall or restaurant
Call a friend or therapist
Journal, write poems/songs
Exercise
Make mood tapes
Watch a FUNNY movie
Paint or draw
Cook or do chores
Play HAPPY music
Hopes this helps you.
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I have a friend on here that we have a bet about my cutting with.. he's willing to help others too.
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good list
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