My name is Gabrielle and I am twenty-five years old. I hurt myself for nearly nine years. This website was made to let self-injurers know that they are not alone and to help their friends and family.
I'd added the ability to create Personal Videos for Creativity for some time but hadn't received any submissions so hadn't added a section.
The Personal Videos category is now located at http://self-injury.net/creativity/personal-videos and has one so far.
Research Study on the Relationship Between Caffeine, Self-Injury, and Family-of-Origin Relationships
-This study has been approved by the International Review Board at Alliant International University and is being conducted by Dr. Steven Jella and Cassandra Curtis
Anxiety and physical and emotional abuse have been shown to be prevalent among people who skin pick (otherwise known as Dermatillomania). People who skin-pick are often found to have higher rates of anxiety than those who do not and research has shown that most people who skin-pick have a diagnosable anxiety disorder. Research has also reported that people who skin pick have reported higher rates of physical and emotional abuse in childhood than those who do not.
My name is Brandi Baumkirchner, M.A., and I am a doctoral student at The Wright Institute in Berkeley, California. My dissertation research is on self-injury. In particular, this topic was chosen because self-injury is often misunderstood. As a consequence, the act of self-injury can be misperceived and viewed negatively by others. This can create shame and secrecy around the behavior. If you choose to participate in this research, please know that your responses and experiences will be honored and held with the utmost respect and sensitivity.
I am looking for volunteers to participate in an anonymous Internet survey, which consists of 4 questionnaires, and should take about 30 minutes to complete. The survey has been approved by The Wright Institute's Internal Review Board/Ethics Committee. If you would like to take the survey, or if you want more information, please go to http://www.tinyurl.com/selfinjure
If you are a registered user you can now add blog entries. Find 'Blog entry' under 'Create content' and write what you'd like. There's a few guidelines you should see when you go to post your blog.
Also, the 'Question & Answer' section under 'Interactive' should be functional now. Thanks for bringing it to my attention that it was not working.
self-injury.net was kindly contacted about making self-injury awareness bracelets available from Light Elegant Accessories through the site and there is now a page with the following information under the 'Self-Injurers' section, as well as this notice.
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If you are looking for self-injury awareness jewelry, got to: http://lightelegantaccessories.yolasite.com/ or send an e-mail to: leac...@hotmail.com (click on the ... for the full address).
Each bracelet is $7.00 and $2.00 from every bracelet sold will be donated to the self injury support organization To Write Love on Her Arms.
Orange for people who self-injure, orange/white for people who used to self-injure, and white for those who support them.
As on the old main page, I'll try to update with notices of studies and perhaps relevant self-injury community news (if it's sent to me).
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The aim of the study is to learn, in the absence of any effective treatment, why people stop using self-harm. Hopefully if we can capture this, we may be able to apply this to other people who want to stop using self-injury. In order for the study to be successful I need participants who have never self-injured, who are currently self-injuring and who have previously self-injured.
To do the study all people have to do is go to http://surveys.psy.uq.edu.au/NSSI.survey they must be Australian so we can control for cultural differences.
Due to a setting, users were unable to upload images for their artwork. Now you should be able to upload and edit your own artwork so if you tried to upload artwork previously you can edit your works and attach the artwork.
Sorry for the inconvenience!
Also, each profile now has a workspace that displays a list of your contributions to your site and allows for editing/addition of your creative works.
Excuse the site while the dust is being shaken off. I'm converting it over to a new look, a new backend, new sections, complete and more intuitive organization.
You'll see that instead of having to e-mail me or use a form that will e-mail me to add your poetry, artwork, short stories, quotes, surveys, dedications, etc., etc. you instead only have to sign up and add it.
I was going to wait until the new version of the forum software was out to release this but it's been months, it's not released, and I'm eager to move on from the old, dreary look.
