Self-injury in popular culture
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—This article lists works of popular culture that explicitly discuss or depict self-injury. The article list of fictional self-harmers also mentions many film, books or plays that discuss or depict self-harm.
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[edit] Television
- In the animated series Drawn Together, the character Toot Braunstein is depicted as frequently herself with razor blades.
- In the show Degrassi: The Next Generation, main character Ellie Nash cuts herself.
- The L Word, Season two, character Jenny Schecter (played by Mia Kirshner) is exposed as a cutter.
[edit] Movies
- In 28 Days, the supporting character Andrea commits self injury.
- In But I'm a Cheerleader, a female character admits to self harm, including using Aversion therapy on to herself.
- In Dans ma Peau, Esther self injures in order to explore a fascination with the workings of her skin and body.
- In Girl, Interrupted, set in a mental institution, the main characters self injure.
- Gegen die Wand - Sibel self injures during the bus scene with Cahit
- Manic - Main character Lyle self injures, along with other characters in the institute.
- On the Edge - The self injury of both Jonathan and Rachel is either seen or referred to
- Prozac Nation - main character Lizzie self injures.
- Saw 3 - Assistant to main antagonist self injures.
- Secretary - Main character Lee Holloway self injures.
- Thirteen - Main character Tracy self injures.
[edit] Books
- Cut by Patricia McCormick - Callie, a girl with elective mutism, is a cutter in a hospital (fic)
- Skin Game by Caroline Kettlewell - Autobiography of a cutter (nonfic).
- Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel - Mention of cutting, book deals with author's own depression (nonfic).
- I Can Hear the Mourning Dove by James Bennett - A girl recovering from a hospital and from losing her dad (fic)
- Dancing on the Edge by Han Nolan - A girl living with her eccentric grandmother and recluse father sets herself on fire after her father vanishes (fic).
- Lisa, Bright and Dark - John Neufeld - Lisa is a self-injurer (fic)
- The Dream Where The Losers Go - Beth Goobie - Skey deals with her pain through self injury (fic)
- A Bright Red Scream - Marilee Strong - women and men, young and old, eloquently explain the reasons they hurt themselves, the relief it sometimes brings them, and why they feel they cannot stop (nonfic).
- Crosses - Shelley Stoehr - the main character, Nancy, and her friend Katie are self-injurers (fic).
- The Luckiest Girl in the World - Stephen Levenkron - 15 year old Katie Roskova is an ice-skater who cuts to keep herself grounded (fic).
- Thin Skin - main character Ruby cuts herself
- Life isn't all Ha Ha Hee Hee - Sunita self harms
- Cutting by Steven Levenkron - A seminal work on treating self-mutilation, revised and updated with illuminating case studies and newly available resources (nonfic).
- Life by Keiko Suenobu-A manga series revolving around a self-conscious sophmore named Ayumu Shiiba who cuts herself.
[edit] Music
- +44 - No, It Isn't "Let's slit our wrists and burn down something beautiful"
- 16 Volt - The Cut Collector
- A Static Lullaby - Love to Hate, Hate to Me "Take this blade to my wrist"
- AFI - The Last Kiss "Do you like what I'm becoming? Cut myself today. It's all for you." The Great Disappointment "Oh, how I smiled then, waiting so patiently I'd make a wish, and bleed" Now The World "I remain and self mutilate"-Affliction "Were We Holding Hands When My Wrist Bled"
- Aiden - Unbreakable (I.J.M.A.)"I know my scars won't heal tonight"- We Sleep Forever "I lose myself at night to feel the rush of tearing my skin apart"- This City Is Far From Here " You’re dying from love and you’re bleeding"
- Angtoria - Do You See Me Now? - "I'm addicted to pain, no one understands me"
- Arcade Fire - Crown Of Love - "I carved your name, across my eyelids, you pray for rain, I pray for blindness"
- Architecture in Helsinki = What's in Store? - "Carve your name into my arm/cause i long to feel your name blood red"
- At the Drive-In - One Armed Scissor - "self-destruct sequence, this station is non-operational"
- Augustana- "So I'll drink myself to sleep, cut my skin until I bleed, Hold my breath all the night*Avenged Sevenfold - Turn the Other Way - "slit my wrists, take away the pain, slit my throat, everyone's to blame"
- Blaqk Audio-Bitter for sweet-"How deep must we cut to reach sensation?"
- Bayside - Loveless Wrists-"So now I cut these loveless wrists. My head sure hurts today I'll take another twenty pills and try to make my troubles go away...Cut my arms with the biggest knife that I can stand"-A Synonym For Acquiesce-"Take this razor, sign your name across my wrists"-How To Fix Everything "The sharper the edge, the cleaner the wound, So I'll be keeping it dull tonight For I deserve to hurt, disfigure the outside to show how ruined I am" - A Rite Of Passage- "Cut cut cut cutting myself down to pieces...I'll take my cuts and stitch them up"
- Björk - Pagan Poetry (Music Video)
- Blink 182 - Here's Your Letter - "cut the skin to the bone/fall asleep, all alone"
- Blue October - Razorblade - "A brief bout with a razorblade cut me, I freaked out, thinking people didn't love me"
- Boys Night Out - Purging "These lines I wear around my wrists are there to prove that I exist" "I am a monster clothed in crimson sleeves and perforated lines where my wrists should be"
- Bullet for My Valentine - Hand of Blood
- Cannibal Corpse - Disfigured - "A straight razor will reshape my face"
- Children of Bodom - Bed of Razors - "The razor caressed my flesh and my arms turned red", Touch like Angel of Death
- Coldplay - Yellow- "D'you know for you i bleed myself dry/For you i bleed myself dry "
- Dir en grey - Gyakujyo Tannou Keloid Milk, Machiavellism - "hurry up! hurry up! wrist-cut show!", Cage, egnirys cimredopyh, R to the Core, Marmalade Chainsaw, Children, Fukai, Zakuro.
- The Dresden Dolls - Girl Anachronism - "you can tell from the scars on my arms, that i'm not the carefullest of girls", Bad Habit - "when i open a familiar scar/pain goes shooting like star/comfort hasn't failed to follow so far"
- Echo and the Bunnymen- The Cutter - "What's in the bottom drawer, Waiting for things to give, Spare us the cutter"
- Ed Harcourt - The Last Cigarette - "The awkward girl with a broken heart smashes her mirror until it fractures leaning down she picks up a shard and ponders to question her actions", Metaphorically Yours - "Oh baby just admit, if both my wrists were slit, you'd bandage them with style and grace", This One's For You - "And if I came back from the grave for a while, would you could you make a dead man smile? I'll wear you on my arm like a brand new scar"
- Elliott Smith - Needle in the Hay
- Eminem - Stan "Sometimes i even cut myself to see how much it bleeds, it like adrenaline - the pain is such a sudden rush for me"
- Entwine - Bleeding For The Cure - "you're blessed to fly and able to return, when you're bleeding for the cure"
- Eve 6 - Friend of Mine - '"Are you feelin that you're on the brink of spilling some red in the sink"'
- Evanescence - Going under "Now I will tell you what I've done for you, fifty thousand tears I've cried, screaming, deceiving and bleeding for you.", Breathe No More, Tourniquet
- Failure - Muffled Snaps "Carve the rage into you/ I've absorbed all the pain"
- Fall Out Boy - The Hand of God - "I'm sick of always writing songs for you to slit your wrists to." I'm Like A Lawyer In The Way I'm Always Trying To Get You Off - "The only way to make it through with hearts and wrists intact"
The(After)Life Of The Party - "i'm a stich away from making it, and a scar away from falling apart"
carpathian forest - the suicide song, third attemp, and others.
- Finger Eleven - Other Light
- Flyleaf-Red Sam-"Here I stand, wishing my wrists were bleeding..."
- The Foo Fighters - All My Life - "Will I find something in there? To give me just what I need. Another reason to bleed. One by one hidden up my sleeve.", Razor
- Garbage - Bleed Like Me - "Doodle takes Dad's scissors to her skin, And when she does relief comes setting in", Medication - "Somebody get me out of here, I'm tearing at myself.", Use Me - Hurt me, it feels like medicine. And all I deserve., #1 Crush - I would burn for you, feel pain for you, I will twist the knife and bleed my aching heart.
- G.G. Allin - Abuse Myself
- Goethes Erben - Rote Tränen
- Goo Goo Dolls - Iris - "You bleed just to know you're alive."
- Hawthorne Heights - Ohio Is For Lovers -"Cut my wrists and black my eyes"
- Head Automatica - The Razor
- HIM - "First Cut is the Deepest"
- Hollywood Undead - My Black Dahlia "Pull up my sleeves and see the pattern of my cuts"
- In Flames - Take this Life "It's not so much the pain. It's more the actual knife. Pretending the picture is perfect, I cut myself to sleep"
- Imogen Heap - Angry Angel "This is an obsession, a kind of aggression with himself."
- Jack Off Jill - Strawberry Gashes "Kill me faster/With strawberry gashes all over", When I am Queen "They all will see the patron saint of self injury", "I will insist with perfect scars upon my wrist"
- James - "Getting Away With It" - "Are you aching for the blade?"
- Jimmy Eat World - "Pain" - "Anyone can find these same white pills / It takes my pain away"
- Katy Rose - Lemon
- k.d. lang - The Mind of Love - "Why hurt yourself, Katherine?"
- Kisschasy - Hearing Voices Tonight - "And I will cut my skin for days on end"
- Korn - Right Now - "I'm gonna cut myself, and watch the blood hit the ground", Eaten Up Inside
- Leonard Cohen - Dress Rehearsal Rag - "Now if you can manage to get your trembling fingers to behave, then why don't you try unwrapping a stainless steel razor blade"
- Linkin Park -Part of Me
- Manic Street Preachers - Die In The Summertime - "Scratch my leg with a rusty nail, sadly it heals", Yes - "Can't shout, Can't scream, I hurt myself to get pain out", Roses In The Hospital - "Roses in the hospital/Try to pull my fingernails out", "Roses in the hospital/Stub cigarettes out on my arm"
- Marilyn Manson - Get Your Gunn - "I scar myself you see I wish I wasn't me", "I throw a little fit I slit my teenage wrist" - The Fight Song - "We'll just cut our wrists like cheap coupons and say that death was on sale today."
- Metallica- [Fade To Black]
- Metric - Grow Up and Blow Away - "If she weren't writing in blood..."
- Murderdolls - Slit My Wrist
- Mudvayne-Happy?-"'Peel me from my skin Tear meat to the rind Does it make you happy now? Tear meat from the bone Tear me from myself Are you feeling happy now?'"
- My Chemical Romance - Cemetery Drive - "Singing songs that make you slit your wrists..."- Thank you for the venom "Love is the red, the rose on your coffin door, what's life like bleeding on the floor? the floor, the floor" - Helena - "and like the blade you stain"
- Neutral Milk Hotel - Three Peaches - "You're in the bathroom carving holiday designs into yourself"
- New Years Day - Razor
- Nine Inch Nails - Hurt (Also known as a cover by Johnny Cash)
- Nirvana - Sappy
- The Organ - There Is Nothing I Can Do
- Our Lady Peace - Sell My Soul - "I'm bleeding by myself, but I'm okay"
- Park - "tonight I'm spent, pretend this razor is your lips, you're finding ways to kiss me, ways to kiss me, deeply on the wrist"
- Oomph! - Du Willst Es Doch Auch -
- Papa Roach - Last Resort - "Don't give a fuck if I cut my arm bleeding / Do you even care if I die bleeding?"Scars- "I tear my heart open, I sew myself shut My weakness is that I care too much And my scars remind me that the past is real..."
- Panic! At The Disco - I constantly thank God For Esteban - "But I for one can see no blood from the hearts and the wrists you alledgedly slit"
- Placebo - "Every you, Every me" : "Carve your name into my arms, instead of stressed, I lie here charmed"
- Plumb - Cut - "Relief exists I find it when I am cut"
- Samsas Traum - Scherenschnitt -
- Sia -Breathe Me
- Sinergy - Razor Blade Salvation - "I pierce the skin of thee, rejoice with the pain"
- Siouxsie and the Banshees - Love Out Me - "Cutting through to my disgrace, Disregard for bone and flesh, How can I be in such a mesh of unlikeliness?", Cascade - I opened up the wound..., Icon - Can I - stick skewers in my skin?, This Unrest - "Metal and flesh will fuse today..."
- Silverstein - Bleeds No More - "tarnished blade, cutting through, pushed into my vein, blood still stains my hands", Smashed Into Pieces - "I'll slit my throat with the knife I pulled out of my spine. Maybe when you find out that I'm dead you'll realize what you did to me"
- Skunk Anansie - Tracy's Flaw - "and all of your rosy scarred up wrist bands make me crucify you more"
- Slipknot - Everything Ends - "Fix my problems with a blade", Everything Ends - "Shallow skin, I can paint with pain, I mark the trails on my arms with your disdain"-Wait and bleed-"I've felt the hate rise up in me, Kneel down and clear the stone of leaves, wander out where you can't see, Inside my shell I wait and bleed"
- Smashing Pumpkins - Today - "Pink ribbon scars that never forget / I tried so hard to cleanse these regrets", Razor (b-side) - "Razor in my hand, Nine little lines in someone's hand"
- Spineshank-Self Destructive Pattern
- Story of the Year - Wake up the Voiceless "Felt the blade of the knife as it pressed against my neck"
- Subway To Sally - Narben -
- Three Days Grace - Pain
- Thursday - Jet Black New Year - "Draw diagrams of suicide on each others wrists / and trace them with razorblades"
- Tori Amos - Crucify - "I've been raising up my hands, drive another nail in."; Precious Things - "These precious things, let them bleed.";
- The Used - Let It Bleed, I'm A Fake, Box of Sharp Objects - "Found a box of sharp objects, what a beautiful day, today i felt better, just knowing this matters, i just feel stronger, and sharper."
- Underoath - A Boy Brushed Red...Living in Black and White "Slit wrists for sleepin' with the girl next door"
