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.
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
Why does death, and suicide, get such hysterical attention, yet self-injury and the struggle to cope and survive get dismissed?
How it feels to be chronically depressed – a personal experience.
[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 […]
Lindsay shares the worst things to say to people with mental ill-health – and offers guidance on to talk to people compassionately.
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.
Aurelia, writing from The Netherlands, talks about how she started to hurt herself, and the progress she’s made and how she now helps others.
Lauren shares her personal views and experiences.
Sarah got in touch with LifeSIGNS a few months ago with a link to a video to share her experiences with self-injury.
One of our Directors, Jules, talks about her experiences with depression, and explores the connection she’s identified between her depression and self-injury.
I’m Laura, and in March I joined the LifeSIGNS team as Blog Manager. My story with self-injury started ten years ago in a fairly ‘unusual’ way – I broke down in public. In this blog article I chose to introduce myself to you through sharing my story with SI.
