Autism, emotions, and self-injury
Jay talks about his self-discovery journey from frustration to identity.
Jay talks about his self-discovery journey from frustration to identity.
Leah talks about her teaching, nursing, and self-injury.
Ben explains how he relied on self-injury to cope as they realised they needed to transition, and then experienced difficulties in accessing medical resources
How it feels to be chronically depressed – a personal experience.
Sonia takes too many tablets, as she explains in this article, and refers to this behaviour as self-poisoning.
Today is Self-Injury Awareness Day. It’s time to start preoperly talking, says Kerry. Here’s how.
This is a hard time of year for many people. Families are not always great. Lonliness is a killer.
[cmsms_row][cmsms_column data_width=”1/1″][cmsms_text] This is Ben’s story; it’s written by Ben, and we’re grateful to him for sharing his past pains and on-going struggle. Ben talks about drugs, cutting, and boderline personality disorder. My drug use and self-injury were interconnected. But the drug use was a different way of achieving the same goal which was to […]
Naëlle explains how self-injury can feel like no choice at all, and that choosing to move away from self-injury is hard and worthwhile.
Lindsay shares the worst things to say to people with mental ill-health – and offers guidance on to talk to people compassionately.
Kyla, studying at Cardiff University, talks about how people can feel when they discover someone they’re close to hurts themself. How can people support friends who self-injure?
Emma resorted to self-injury when here relationship with her father got worse and worse. Struggling to feel worthy, Emma worked hard to gain her confidence and happiness.
