Self-Injury is something that takes place all to often unnoticed. Statistics show that millions of people are self injurers. Many times they are more commonly refered to as "cutters". But self-injury takes for in many other ways than just cutting, but I will get into more detail about that later. To some people, they cant fathom the thought of wanting to hurt themselves therefore it is very difficult for the public to understand and/or help most of the time. Often times the only thing a loved one of a person who self-injures can do is say "here, hurt me not you, will that help?". Unfortunatley the answer to that question is no, it wont help. Self-injury goes much farther than the physical wounds on the surface of a body. As with many illnesses or problems, it often times takes a person who has lived through it, to understand or sympathize with it. There are programs and books that will help both the injurer and their family and friends. I will mention some later on.

The belief that self injurers are only cutters is a very misled belief. Many would be amazed at all the ways one can hurt themselves. Because this page may be seen by those who do self injure, I will only name a few so as to not give anyone more ideas on how to do so. People go from cutting and burning, to starving themselfs to even putting then in situations with abusive people, just so they will get hurt.