Find supportive tools for understanding and coping with self-harm, including a self-harm quiz, recommended books, helpful blog posts, podcasts, apps, and more.
Table of Contents
Self-Harm Quiz
Self-Harm Books
Self-Harm Blog Posts
- Best Self-Harm Alternatives To Support Your Therapy Clients
- How To Cope With A Self-Harm Relapse?
- Addiction To Self Harm: Top 5 Steps To Overcome It
- Best +65 Self Harm Quotes
- What Self-Harm Can Look Like Beyond Cutting
- Why Do People Self-Harm?
- How to Identify the Need Behind a Self-Harm Urge?
- How to Interrupt the Self-Harm Cycle?
- What to Say and What Not to Say to Someone Who Self-Harms
Self-Harm Podcasts
- The Psychology of Self-Injury: Exploring Self-Harm & Mental Health
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Probably the strongest podcast dedicated specifically to self-injury. Clinical psychologist Dr. Nicholas Westers interviews researchers, clinicians, people with lived experience, and families about NSSI and recovery.
Apps
- Calm Harm
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Free app designed specifically to help people manage or resist self-harm urges. It includes short activities, urge tracking, journaling, and tools based partly on DBT principles. It is intended for ages 13+. - Virtual Hope Box
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A coping-support app developed for use alongside mental health treatment. Users can personalize coping tools, distractions, supportive reminders, and other resources they want available during difficult moments.
Other Resources
SAFE-T: Suicide Assessment Five-Step Evaluation and Triage
SAMHSA’s clinician tool covering risk factors, protective factors, suicide inquiry, risk level and appropriate intervention.
Crisis Text Line
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Free 24/7 text-based crisis support in the United States. Their service specifically includes support for self-harm.
