Self Harm


Girl in Pieces
Cut
Scars
A Little Life
Willow
Sharp Objects
God of Fury (Legacy of Gods, #5)
Impulse (Impulse, #1)
Wintergirls
Skin Game
Suicide Notes
A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain
Break
Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation
Kaylee: The "What If?" Game
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherSpeak by Laurie Halse AndersonThe Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldA Child Called "It" by Dave PelzerBridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Depressing Novels
131 books — 128 voters
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der KolkAdult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. GibsonSadie's Favorite by Sarah                    RoseInsecure in Love by Leslie Becker-PhelpsComplex PTSD by Pete Walker
CPTSD books
18 books — 8 voters

Feel My Pain by K.A. MerikanKing of the Dark by Ariana NashWhere the Devil Says Goodnight by K.A. MerikanThe Traitor and the Fighter by Alice  WintersCrimson Painted Snow by Brea Alepoú
M/M Dark|Edgy Books 2020
18 books — 21 voters
The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyThirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Depression and Mental Illness
595 books — 497 voters


Bessel van der Kolk
When you have a persistent sense of heartbreak and gutwrench, the physical sensations become intolerable and we will do anything to make those feelings disappear. And that is really the origin of what happens in human pathology. People take drugs to make it disappear, and they cut themselves to make it disappear, and they starve themselves to make it disappear, and they have sex with anyone who comes along to make it disappear and once you have these horrible sensations in your body, you’ll do a ...more
Bessel A. van der Kolk

The blade sings to me. Faintly, so soft against my ears, its voice calms my worries and tells me that one touch will take it all away. It tells me that I just need to slide a long horizontal cut, and make a clean slice. It tells me the words that I have been begging to hear: this will make it ok.
Amanda Steele, The Cliff

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