r/AdultSelfHarm↗
A place for older people that self harm to seek support and understanding from a community who understands the struggles SH recovery. We are not a pro-SH group. If your post doesn't show up on the feed right away, please have patience, it likely got caught up in the automod queue and is waiting for review before being approved. If you need immediate advice/support then please reach out to your local mental health crisis response team.
35k subscribers956 posts / mo in Sep 2026 (incl. <1% by known bots)755 authors / mosince 2019
r/AdultSelfHarm has 35k members (+42% over the last 12 months). It gets about 956 posts a month from 755 people. Top topics: Pain and Poetry, Comfort Reads & Mental Health and Job Transitions Anxiety.
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- Pain and Poetry0.1%
- Comfort Reads & Mental Health<0.1%
- Job Transitions Anxiety<0.1%
- Paid Research Studies<0.1%
- PoetryAndMentalHealth<0.1%
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- fataltotheflesh
- etsy
- NOCD
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