by Self-Injury Institute | Apr 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
I started working with cutters more than a decade ago, so that means I was doing therapy with teens and adults who had little to no exposure to social media. I know, I know—dinosaurs. Back then, if you wanted people to know your current dating status or what you had...
by Self-Injury Institute | Mar 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
For me, this has become a relatively new topic. With social media, cutting “parties,” graphic Tumblr pages, and Demi Lovato, I find more cases of attention-seeking cutting every day. But is there a difference between cutting for attention and the more clinically...
by Self-Injury Institute | Feb 11, 2014 | Uncategorized
Generally speaking, non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is conceptualized as a private behavior. Many cutters would even describe it as isolating and secretive and go to great lengths to hide the cuts and scars. These statements are true until you put several cutters...
by Self-Injury Institute | Jan 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
Here at KISI, one of the things we value most is education. Not the kind of education that sometimes means confusing concepts, excessive homework, or the inherent frustration that can come along with it; but the kind of education that teaches us about ourselves and...
by Self-Injury Institute | Oct 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
If you know (or are) a cutter who has been in treatment for self-injury, there is a pretty good chance that the treatment offered was some version of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT for short). There is also a pretty good chance this treatment didn’t work. DBT was...
by Self-Injury Institute | Sep 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) scares most of us. In the deepest, darkest corners of our primal beings, whether we are consciously aware of it or not, we associate blood with death and dying. This isn’t wimpy or weak; it’s not the mark of a fragile soul nor is it the...
