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Welcome
Approximately 1% of the population has, at one time or another, used self-inflicted physical injury as a means of coping with an overwhelming situation or feeling. Self-harm scares people. The behavior can be disturbing and difficult to understand, and it is often treated in a simplistic or sensational manner by the press. As a result, friends and loved ones of people who self-injure often feel frightened, isolated, and helpless. Sometimes they resort to demands or ultimatums as a way of trying to regain some control over the situation, only to see things deteriorate further.

The first step toward coping with self-injurious behavior is education: bringing reliable information about who self-injures, why they do it, and how they can learn to stop to people who self-injure and to their friends, loved ones, and medical caregivers.

• American Self Harm Information Clearinghouse
• Wikipedia article on self-injury
• Self Injury Help

Rules of the road: 43 Things is a place for your life dreams. We do ask that you think about what you want out of life, beyond just this goal, and add your dreams to your list of 43 Things. Users may share their opinions and experiences, including portraying self harm goals in a positive light. Users may not, however, provide detailed or instructional material that may help someone do harm to themselves. This type of instructional advice, when reported by other users will be cause for suspending a user’s account.