Posted by judy1 on June 30, 2001, at 22:03:28
In reply to cutting, posted by josiejo on June 30, 2001, at 18:25:43
You might want to do a search on self-injury here; I posted a while ago about my own problems and I remember we had quite a thread going with a lot of references that were helpful to me. SI (and cutting is the most common) is a coping mechanism used by people who haven't developed more effective ones. It usually isn't life threatening unless dissociation is involved (and in cases like that it can get fairly serious). It is not easy to give up, I have been in therapy for quite a while to deal with it- you just really have to want to stop and have alternative strategies in place. It just takes a lot of work with a therapist who is experienced with SI. Hope some of this helps- judy
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