[Samz]

1. Female
2. How old were you when you started to Self Injure? 13
3. How do you SI? Cutting & OD mostly, I do occassionaly burn.
4. Do you try to hide it? How? Yeh, I wear clothes which cover it.
5. Why do you SI? What do you get out of it? To punish myself for being such a bad person, to remind myself that I will never be good enough, & so that there is some way of getting all this upset and sadness out of myself, into something physical.
6. Have you ever told anyone that you SI? If yes, who did you tell and how did they react? How did you tell them? Yes. I told my tutor last year. She was absolutely amazing, she didn't force me to get help, she just told me it didn't change what she thought of me and that she was always always there if I needed her. It had been building for a few weeks that she knew something was up, she eventually kept me behind after a tutorial when I'd had a very bad day and I just burst into floods of tears and told her everything. A few friends have found out, and I told my boyfriend.
7. Did you ever seek professional help for SI? If yes, did it help you? I've had professional help for a few things, but not SI.
8. Did you ever want to seek help but didn’t? If yes why didn’t you? Yes. I don't really know why, but I've always felt like there's so little they can do to help.
9. Have you ever been diagnosed with a psych disorder? If yes, which one? Bulimia and depression.
10. Do you think there is a connection between the disorder and your SI? Yes definatly
11. Have you ever SI with the intent of suicide? Yes
12. If you have been to the hospital for SI, how did the staff treat you?
13. Did you ever want to quit SI? Please explain both yes and no answers. If you did decide to try to quit about how long after you started to SI did you decide you wanted to quit? What did you try to do to quit? What helped and what did not? I've never really tryed, I'm too scared to try and fail.
14. Do you think SI should be categorized as disorder in itself? No.
15. Did your SI injury get worse with time or did it stay about the same? Worse.
16. If you could find healthier ways that would give you the same effects of SI, would you stop SIing and replace it with the healthier alternative? I would.
17. Did you ever regret SI? Sometimes, but it's made me who I am.
18. Do you think the awareness of SI effects peoples willing/unwillingness to ‘come out’? Yes
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20. State any additional comments or if you feel you want to say something that wasn’t addressed in this questionnaire.