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Self Injury / Cutting Support Groups
When you're dead inside you just have to do something to know that you still feel anything.
Or you have to take it all out on yourself.
Or you have to let out the bad feelings. Because it was somehow your fault you were abused.
There are a thousand reasons to cut or otherwise harm yourself.
There are thousands of reasons not to. The people in your immediate vicinity may not give a rat's ass, but you're not totally alone.
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Bodies Under Siege Coping techniques, support, dealing with the stigma, fighting the urge, delving in the whys of self-injury. A huge site with over 4,000 members. See what I mean about your not being alone? A strong emphasis on safety and not triggering anyone. Includes info on popular comorbid conditions like eating disorders and depression. Thanks to ethereal for pointing out this site to me.
Safe Haven Another huge site, with over 5,000 members. Focusing on support and letting out those personal demons that drive people to injury themselves. Plus eating disorders, depression, meds, dealing with family and friends and just about everything else in a life where you struggle not to cut yourself.
The Self-Injurer’s Sanctum Yahoo Group This is a group for self-injurers who are still in school. It can be high school or college. This is just for school aged people because sometimes it can be hard to relate to the problems of a middle-aged person when you are a school-aged person. This is a place for support! No one will judge you here! - It requires registration to read, so I don't know what's going on. Anyway, I'm way too old.
Self-Injurers Anonymous - Another group recommended to me by ethereal. Just five months old, but getting a lot of traffic. Which is a bummer if you think about it hard enough. From suicide to coping tools. LifeSIGNS - Moderated site where registration and participation are mandatory. Again, given the sensitive nature of self-injury, these are not surprising requirements.
That's all I have so far. Self Injury / Cutting carries one of the worst stigmata around. There's not even an open directory listing of support groups. Even the number of news stories is miniscule despite the huge number of members on two of the above fora. No wonder this is rightly called "the secret shame." Some of the sites that offer A Little Bit of Everything have self-injury boards. Most don't. |
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If you know of any good Self-Injury / Cutting support groups / fora / chat rooms, send an e-mail to jerod23 at gmail dot com. Given the heavy stigma of self-injury and the dearth of groups, I'll forgo my usual criterion of requiring that they be open to guest viewing. Even if you're starting your own let me know. There's no guarantee I'll list it, but you never know. English language is not a requirement.
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