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What is SH or SI?

Self-injury (SI) or self-harm (SH) is deliberate injury inflicted by a person upon their own body without suicidal intent.

It is estimated that nearly two million people in the United States harm themselves in some way. The majority is teenagers. A majority of the teenagers are young women opposed to young men. Self-injurers can be of any race or background.


- Virtual Teen

(For more information on self-harm, look here.)

What is the Snowflake Relief Project?

January 18th, 2011

While I was sitting in class this afternoon, I became overwhelmed with the amount of work I could not focus on and I was having panic attacks.  My scissors were in my pocket.  I knew I had to get through my second day without self-harm but I just wanted to cut.  I wanted to make myself feel better but I had promised friends I wouldn’t.  I went for a walk to my locker and back to get a text book, somehow holding out until I got back to class.  I regretted it.  I wanted to cut more than ever but I was sitting in a group with two friends.  I kept scratching my scissors against my thumb.

I then remembered something a friend told me: when I wanted to cut, cut up paper instead.  I took out a blank sheet and my scissors.  I did not really see much in just shredding the sheet so I folded it and cut a little design into it.  I made my first paper snowflake.  I then knew that this was going to be my way of recovery.

I want to share this idea with others in hope it will offer motivation and hope for recovery like it has for me.  What started out as a fifteen-year-old’s silly idea may actually be a good way to stop self-harming.  Try it out to see for yourself.  Set your own goals as well as using mine, if you’d like.  Challenge others and have fun.

- Limmenel.