Why SI?

Why Do We SI?

This page is devoted to the reasons we SI. As with everything, please email us at selfinjuryanonymus@aol.com if there is a reason that you don't see here

Bordem

One response may be out of sheer bordem. As Angelina Jolie said, "you're crazy, you're in bed, you've got knives, shit happens." (See DYK: SI Facts for a list of SI celebs) I know this to be partly true. I've been in my room with one of my prefered instruments and bored, and that shit happened. This can be a perfect chance to practice you ACCEPTS skills (see DBTTotW: ACCEPTS and Self-Soothe) Why do our minds go to SI in these moments? Well, why are we alone in our rooms anyway (some parents don't allow this when their child is going through a period of SI)? For me, it is probably because I don't really want to be in anyother part of the house because I don't want to deal with the rest of my family-which is either because I'm too depressed to deal with them or because I'm depressed and don't want to socialize. So, with lack of any other shit to do, we engage in SI. The easiest way to avoid this is fairly obvious: take the utensils out of your room. Of course, we all know that that parting is such sweet sorrow. Some question the legitimacy of bordem as a trigger-"it's never just because you're bored," says my family services case worker. Then again, she's an outsider.