Self Injury Resources

[Krissycakes09]

So, if you've got a resource to share that's helping you deal with self-injury, post away! It can be a link, or a document - anything you want that's a positive coping mechanism. 

 

• USA Self-Injury Help by S.A.F.E. (Self Abuse Finally Ends)
  Phone number: 1-800-DONT-CUT (1-800-366-8288)
  
  http://www.postsecretcommunity.com/news-faq/wellness

(originally posted by Kiya here: http://forums.psychcentral.com/showthread.php?t=83848)

• C.A.R.E.S.S. technique (posted by jeNeTeConnaisPas)
  stands for: Communicate Alternatively, Releasing Endorphins, Self Soothe. If this interests you, please go here: http://forums.psychcentral.com/showthread.php?t=99243 to learn more!
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Impulse Control Log (posted by sunflower55) "The impulse control log is taken from S.A.F.E and is geared specifically for self-injury but can be used for many types of compulsions. With the impulse control log it is required that you log down every thought or feeling associated with a particular urge to self injure, whether or not you actually go through with the act or not. In the beginning the goal is that the writing will become a diversion from the act itself. The long-term goal is to understand the connection between your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors." For more infomation, please go here: http://forums.psychcentral.com/showthread.php?t=98107 to learn more!

 

• Urge Surfing (posted by Slippers)

"Alan Marlatt coined the term used to describe allowing ourselves to think of our urges as waves which we can watch, follow, and see diminish, like ocean waves. The technique works best for people who have had done some work with mindfulness and/or meditation ... This technique can work for the urge to use drugs, to drink, to emotionally eat, to self injure, etc. Unhealthy urges of all kinds can be watched, studied, and allowed to pass. They died off like that crashing wave on the beach. Yes, another will come. But know that you can watch that one pass as well." For more information, please go here: http://forums.psychcentral.com/showthread.php?t=68979

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