Resources for self-harm
If you have suggestions for resources, please send them to me via my Tumblr blog.
Safer Self-harming & First-aid:
- Cutting the Risk (free book about sh harm reduction, first aid + anatomy info) (my favourite)
- More Accurate Diagram of Safer Spots For Self Injury , made by an EMT with a phlebotomist, a paramedic, and nurse. No image description.
- how to make butter fly bandages (image described)
- What is a self-harm harm reduction plan
- Self-Harm Safety Plan, a worksheet to help you plan ahead for when you self-harm or feel urges.
Avoiding Self-harm:
- Calm Harm, an app that helps you “ride the wave” of self-harm urges. Free in the UK and US, charges may apply elsewhere.
- The Hurt Yourself Less Workbook
- Distractions and Alternatives to Self-Harm
- More distractions/alternatives
- Even more distraction/alternatives
- Fatal to the Flesh, a website where you can draw cuts, some people find it can relive sh urges but for others it can intensify them
- Surfing The Urge to Self-Harm
- An Introduction to Mindfulness & Meditation
- I Want to Stop Hurting Myself
- Self-harm Diary, a online tool with diary prompts to help you understand why you self-harm and what can help you avoid sh
- Helping yourself if you self-harm
- Tips for coping with self-harm – for 11-18 year olds
- Self-Harm Safety Plan, a worksheet to help you plan ahead for when you self-harm or feel urges.
- To Write Love on Her Arms' mental health toolkit
- Treatment and support for self-harm (UK centric)
Support:
Online Support and Resources:
- 7 Cups of Tea's self-harm recovery and peer support forums
- R/MadeOfStyrofoam a non-recovery focused place to talk about self-harm and vent
- National Self-harm Network forum
- Recover Your Life, I don't believe this website or forum is active anymore but includes advice, distractions, etc.
- @Self-harm-harm-reduction on Tumblr, my blog where you can ask questions, share your experinces, and hear about other's experinces
- Alternatives to harmful crisis lines (USA focused, some resources available in Canada)
In-person & Regional Support:
I am trying to expand this list! If you know of a region specific support service for people who self-harm, please tell me about it via Tumblr or Neocities.
USA:
UK:
- Treatment and support for self-harm
- How to find a support group
- Alumina, free online Self-harm support for 10-17 year olds
- Harmless, support for people who self-harm
- Sift's text, phone, email, and letter Listening Support. phone and text support have limited hours, see website. emails and letters replied to within a week. (Your IP address, location, phone number, and othe personal information is not shared with Sift, "very occasionally, we may need to contact another service if we believe it's necessary for your safety or someone else's, but this is only if you've shared identifying information with us").
- Sift's peer support service (available to over 18s in Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire) and support groups (online and in-person).
- Battel Scars online support groups and in-person support in Leeds and FRESH phone support, non-crisis support for people 18+ who self-harm in England
- Self-harm Network Scotland's online chat (available from 6pm – 10pm, 7 days a week) and Self-harm Network Scotland 1:1 peer support (run by people with lived experience for people aged 12+ living in Scotland).
- Zest, provides support to people who self-harm in the Western Health and Social Care Trust area in Northen Ireland.
Ireland
- Pieta, provides free counseling for people who self-harm, having thoughts about self-harm or suicide, or bereaved by suicide
- Sift, previously Self-injury Support. A UK charity, with online resources, support groups, and peer support services (over 18s in Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire)
- Self-harm Network Scotland, a Scottish charity which provides peer support to people who self-harm living in Scotland aged 12 and over. All their peer support practitioners have lived experience of self-harm.
- In Conversation Videos, a series of videos by people with lived experience on self-harm about self-harm
- Information and Guidance in British Sign Language (BSL)
- Self-harm report card, useful for if you struggle to talk about self-harm with others especially if you need medical attention. Here is another similar card.
- Self-Harm Related AAC Symbols