Gwen, an alcoholic, is forced into rehab. There she begins to reexamine her life after meeting the other people there.
There is a scene where Andrea, Gwen's roommate at rehab, is caught self-injuring by Gwen.
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[After Andrea has cut herself]
Andrea: Just so you know, I wasn't trying to off myself or anything.
Gwen: Okay.
Andrea: It's just something I do sometimes.
Gwen: Doesn't it hurt?
Andrea: Feels better.
Gwen: Than what?
Andrea: Everything else.
Based on the book, "Augusta, Gone" written by Martha Tod Dudman. This movie was a Lifetime Movie and was about a girl who experimented with drugs, drinking, and other activites and a mother's struggle to save her daughter. It explicitly shows a scene of cutting while the character Augusta is at a camp for "problem" teens.
"Martha is a businesswoman and divorced mother of two children - Augusta and Jack. However, when docile Augusta becomes a teenager, feelings of anger and self-hate cause her personality to undergo a scary transformation, and Martha realizes that this is not just typical teen angst. Augusta begins doing drugs, drinking, and ends up on the streets. Her concerned mother and father reach out to an educational consultant, who advises them to send Augusta to a strict wilderness camp for troubled teens. However, even the institution's experienced and tough administrators find Augusta a difficulty to keep under control. Martha comes to realize that there is no answer to her daughter's behavior." Written by Icedberry
A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.
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The lead character has a history of self-injurious behavior and there are depictions of self-injury throughout the film, especially as she goes deeper into psychosis.
A dramatized biography of Brandon Teena staring Hilary Swank as Teena. There's one scene in which Brandon Teena is sitting around a camp fire with the guys. If I remember correctly - it's been 10 years - the guys briefly compare SI scars. There's no actual SI in the film. Just images of scars that are supposed to be the result of SI.
Homosexual and Transgender persecution and graphic violence in this film. It also has a rape scene. Careful if that offends you.
Chronic is an experimental narrative about a young woman who began mutilating herself as a girl to cope with her bitter mid-western life. The lush optically-printed scenes take Gretchen's point of view from her punk youth, a stay in a mental hospital, and her release into the big city. Scripted scenes are composited with documentary and found footage, illustrating the culture Gretchen lives in, her inner world and relationships from her birth to her final day.
"A woman becomes fascinated by her own body after a disfiguring accident."
The woman in the film begins cutting and destroying her skin after an accident in which she loses all sensation in her leg. She attempts to hide her addiction from her everyone, including her boyfriend. She eventually spirals out of control into auto-cannibalism.
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After suffering deep gashes on her leg in an accidental fall, Ester, a young research analyt, becomes preoccupied with her body and skin, especially her wounds. There are many scenes through out the film that freature her SI.
- When she's on the job and blatantly says, after going to the basement and finding a sharp piece of metal to jab into her thigh, that she had just cut herself.
- Rents a hotel room and calls in sick to work, to spend a few days cutting herself.
A VERY good movie, revolves all around SI so be warned at the graphic and triggering nature.
My name is Gabrielle and I am twenty-eight years old. I began to self-injure at age fifteen -- so nearly thirteen years -- minus a two year period. This website was made to let self-injurers know that they are not alone and to help their friends and family learn more about self-injury and how it affects their loved one.
