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Jane's Things That Work:

• Exert yourself physically somehow. I bought a bike and ride it like a maniac on my good days.

• Go to a place where you can scream by yourself. This is hard in my area with little privacy and people might think I'm crazy, so I go to the beach and scream my brains out while in my car with the windows up.

• Take Martial Arts classes. They teach discipline as well as give you a physical outlet.

• Draw lines on your body with a red marker signifying the blood.

• Make a cloth doll representing someone who has hurt you and displace your aggressions on it.

• Wear a "special" bracelet to remind yourself you have value and to deter the cutting.

• Write a bunch of swears on a piece of paper and tear it up.

• Write letters to those who have hurt you expressing your feelings, even if you do not send them - this is great therapy!

• Like "House of the Dead" by Sega? Shoot the shit out the Magician's "kneecap"! (You might even make the board!)

• Stay away from jerks and other people's emotional garbage.

• Humor Therapy!!

• Eat properly & get enough sleep.

• If you have kids, go hug them and tell them you love them.

Excellent Resource Links:

• Self Injury (mirror-mirror)
  
  
• Understanding Self Injury
  
  
• Kharre's Home
  
  
• Secret Shame
  
  
• Cutters by Razor
  
  
• Ask the Expert - Self-Mutilation
  
  
• Self Injury Resources
  
  
• Workbook for People Who Self-Injure
  
  
• Self Help for Self Injury
  
  
• Internet Mental Health
  
  
• NEVER GIVE UP ~ THERE'S ALWAYS A WAY
  
  
• Parental Stress Line - Extremely supportive and highly skilled. These people have viable motives for becoming volunteers and all I've spoken to "have been there".
  I STRONGLY recommend calling if you have children - you will not be disappointed!
  (800) 632-8188, 24 Hours



• The Self Injurers UNION - Comrades, Web Ring Members and People who have SURVIVED the Nightmare of SI, Tremendous Pain and a variety of Psychiatric Disorders. We ALL Support Eachother!

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• If all else has failed go meet my baby,"Joey"! ~ He'll make you laugh, guaranteed! Laughter is great therapy :D