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<blockquote data-quote="WNC Gal" data-source="post: 47414" data-attributes="member: 3783"><p>My daughter is a "recovering" cutter - she had only been doing it for about 3 months but was ramping up the frequency and severity so we addressed it by sending her to a special 30 day program in Aurora, IL called Safe Alternatives which heavily uses DBT and lots of group therapy and impulse control logs. The founders of the program, Karen Conterio and Wendy Lader, have written a wonderful book called "Bodily Harm - the Breakthrough Healing Program for Self-Injurers" which lays out a plan for recovery including in depth writing assignments which explore the impulses behind the SI and utilizes the impulse control logs to help identify and control those impulses. Even if one did not attend the actual program, the recovery plan laid out in the book could be utilized by one's own therapist. </p><p></p><p>The program was expensive (15 days inpatient and 15 days outpatient) - insurance only covered a small part - but I feel it was well worth it. The program includes both teens and adults - I think it frightened the socks off of my daughter who was just beginning to SI to see women who have been doing this for decades and the havoc it brought into their lives. </p><p></p><p>Since the program, she has only self-injured twice with tiny scratches at moments of extreme stress (with 911 on the way while suicidal) - so we can move on to her other issues now. </p><p></p><p>I still don't understand the dynamic of SI in secret vs. telling people and "showing off" one's scars. Does that make it a different behavior? She does not have abuse or trauma in her background - so I believe it was a coping mechanism for her severe mood swings.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WNC Gal, post: 47414, member: 3783"] My daughter is a "recovering" cutter - she had only been doing it for about 3 months but was ramping up the frequency and severity so we addressed it by sending her to a special 30 day program in Aurora, IL called Safe Alternatives which heavily uses DBT and lots of group therapy and impulse control logs. The founders of the program, Karen Conterio and Wendy Lader, have written a wonderful book called "Bodily Harm - the Breakthrough Healing Program for Self-Injurers" which lays out a plan for recovery including in depth writing assignments which explore the impulses behind the SI and utilizes the impulse control logs to help identify and control those impulses. Even if one did not attend the actual program, the recovery plan laid out in the book could be utilized by one's own therapist. The program was expensive (15 days inpatient and 15 days outpatient) - insurance only covered a small part - but I feel it was well worth it. The program includes both teens and adults - I think it frightened the socks off of my daughter who was just beginning to SI to see women who have been doing this for decades and the havoc it brought into their lives. Since the program, she has only self-injured twice with tiny scratches at moments of extreme stress (with 911 on the way while suicidal) - so we can move on to her other issues now. I still don't understand the dynamic of SI in secret vs. telling people and "showing off" one's scars. Does that make it a different behavior? She does not have abuse or trauma in her background - so I believe it was a coping mechanism for her severe mood swings. [/QUOTE]
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