Recovery, Support, & Understanding: Breaking Down the Responses to Self-Injury on Reddit

The project used latent Dirichlet allocation to identify prominent themes in responses to self-injury in the largest self-injury group on Reddit (85,000+ members). Identified themes included: 1) positive recovery; 2) wound care/concealment; 3) perspectives on healing and living; and 4) professional help-seeking. These results can inform professional responding to self-injury.