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.