SI stands for self injury.

There are lots of distractions or alternatives, like the rubber band or holding ice against your skin until it hurts, or drawing on yourself with a marker. Those things work sometimes, but they really don't for me either. What I meant by other ways to cope was more like ways of directly and effectively dealing with your emotions and what is upsetting you. Still, I know it isn't easy, and I'm really not one to talk, since I'm not quite ready to give up SI myself yet.