This is bad – A Daily Express article by Leo McKinsty
http://bigdaddymerk.co.uk/mailwatch/forum/viewtopic.php?p=422&sid=20ba0bd80d0b3384921aac43f0b4f541
A kinda difficult article to read. Basically insulting, all about self-harm being self-indulgent, fashionable, cry for attention and so on. Don’t read it if you are not prepared to be filled with rage.
I would write something to the editor of the Express, or to the guy who wrote it, only I cannot waste my words and energy on him.
What is dangerous about this though is that people who know about self-harm, who have come a long way in understanding it, can then read this and think well, there’s probably some people who use self-harm like that, completely forgetting all the work we have done to move away from those stereotypes.
4 Comments
jennyb
April 26, 2006i can’t believe how they can say that there is no stigma attached – thats like saying Mc Donalds isn’t fattening!!!
and if depression is added to that list, has he not read into the science of those whoo are clinically depressed with hormone and chemical imbalances????
cazp
April 21, 2006I haven’t read this one yet, will do in a second,but as soon as I saw the name I cringed…the same guy wrote one in the Daily Telegraph a couple of years ago. Hundreds of people wrote letters of complaint (I know from another forum I was on) and mine was actually published on the website. I can’t believe he’s done it again!
cel02
April 11, 2006I’m really appalled by this. Just when the reporting of SI in the media is becoming more responsible this kind of thing comes along and really damages the good work done.
Mary
April 6, 2006I cannot believe that something like that has been allowed to be published.
I am very angry and sad. I’m sure if I can reply either.