<font color="dark green">How to help yourself: Suggestions of things to do. <font color="purple">
1) Change your environment, if necessary. Evaluate where you are. If you are still in an "unsafe" environment, either physically or emotionally, then you might not be able to heal while there. You will continue to react to it and not feel safe.

2) Make the decision to stop self-harm. If you haven't made this decision, or wish to continue no matter what, you can't go much farther on this. If you do wish to stop, if not now but in the future, making your own self aware of this is important.

3) Identify those events or thoughts that either provoke or encourage your self-harming behavior. Writing these down helps, imo.

4) When you feel like you need to self-harm:

a) Don't be alone. Move to a room or place where there are other ppl. If someone is around who can hold or hug you while you're in crisis, ask!
b) Stay away from the instruments you use to self-harm
c) Distract yourself, delay the act.
d) Say NO! or STOP! to your thoughts and actions.
e) Remind yourself of the results of self-harm : social rejection, guilt, scars, clothing considerations
f) if you cannot do the above, try using an alternative non-harmful symbolic act

<font color="blue">There are plenty of longer term actions you can take to help curb self-harm. Being honest with an understanding therapist can be quite supportive of ending this behavior as well as teach you better communication of your feelings, learning to deal with your anger, so that you don't take it out on yourself, even taking a self defense course to build self esteem, self discipline, and a sense of safety can help!

It's also important to not feed the behavior (by discussing your actions of self-harm in a positive, desirable way.)