Welcome to Safe-Harbor, an online support community for adults in recovery from self-injury including cutting, burning, compulsive skin picking, head banging, etc.. Adult survivors of childhood abuse and/or those with PTSD, DID / MPD (multiple personality disorder) or other dissociative disorder, OCD, depression, etc. who also self-injure are especially welcome. To keep this group safe, anyone in any c^lt, w^tchcr^ft, etc. is not welcomed here.

This group is a place for adults who are working on recovering from self-injury. Please feel free to provide and receive support with each other and to share what works in your recovery from self-injury. This group is in no way meant to replace counseling, but is meant to be a place to give and receive support while in the healing process.

Please make sure you are safe before and during reading, posting and responding to any posts. In order to protect all members of the group, there should be no details about SI or abuse and absolutely no threats of SI or suicide. If you feel suicidal, please seek help via an appropriate outside source.

Given the sensitive nature of this group, please act with respect and care for others when posting or replying to messages. Always make sure subject titles are descriptive of the message content, and if the content is especially triggering, then please specify "Trigger" in the subject line (note that the topic of self-injury, alone is triggering, and it doesn't make sense that every post be triggered).

Keeping in mind that this group is about positive sharing of what works for us to keep us safe and being a supportive community, I think we should all be fine :)

Warmly,
CAM, M.A..