I know of a lot of books that might help you, in addition to therapy. I think therapy is more important, but for me, reading about self-injury really helped me validate and understand myself. I used to think it was a bunch of melodramatic crap that I should just be able to stop. But reading these books has helped me. One in particular that I just read is really REALLY helpful. The other books are more informational than anything, but this one is a self-help book. It's called "The Scarred Soul" by Tracy Alderman. I reccomend following the advice in the book and ONLY doing the exercises when you are not feeling like burning right at that moment. But I think that this book could help you understand why you do this, and how you can stop. And you could share the stuff you learn from it with your therapist.

Beyond that, I just reccomend having patience and compassion for yourself. Try to take care of yourself and love yourself, and also do not get too angry with yourself if you have a lot of slip-ups while you're trying to quit. We all do that. We all try to quit, but have slip-ups sometimes. If you get too down about it when you do slip, then it will only make the problem worse, you know? Try to be understanding with yourself, as you would with someone else.

I wish you the BEST of luck! Keep posting and letting us know how you're doing, ok?

Angela

-comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable-