A Self-Injury Website

Welcome to A Healing Touch, a self-injury website. This site is designed as a reference point for people who self-injure, or know others who self injure.

Self injury is the general term used to describe self-inflicted pain or injury on oneself. Most commonly this is in the form of cutting or burning, but there are many other forms of self-injury. Self injury is often linked to depression, and is - simply expressed - a coping mechanism.

For many people, self injury (or self-mutilation) is not a widely recognized habit. This can make it extremely difficult to find the support and help that is so essential for self injurers.

But there is help out there, and this site is designed to provide a little of that help, along with further links to on and offline resources...

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