Yeah, I guess so, maybe it would be better if it was taught as part of the curriculum, cause they cover eating disorderes and suicide ans stuf like that wh not SI?
well i knew that people punched walls when they were angry ect but i didnt really know about self harm before i started.
It was only months after when i though i might be depressed and i looked up signs of depression on the net and seen self injury. Then i did soem research on that and found RYL. It didnt really occur to me for the first few months when i done it that other people were like me or that there were lots of online communities..
I'm also pissed off the my teachers didnt notice that i had mental health issues. I mean perhaps alot of people are good at hiding it but they should have noticed that i stopped talking to people, started failing everything, ect. But then agian my school are great at playing the ignorance card..
Yeah, i have to admit its probably not to my creadit hat im a brilliant liar and actor that no one noticed mine til i slipped up bog time an went down stairs i na short sleeved tee no jumper. But i think it should be more public, remove the stigma, and help to educate people. Like when you tell people, the first thing they do is often to try and make you promise not too.
More
I didnt. I first started and thought I was the only one in the world that did it. then when my school counselling center called me out on it i came on the internet to do some reasearch, which is where I came across RYL.
i didnt really know what it was, but when i started like really started, it was starting to become a topic on hollyoaks (the shame) and i kind of realised what it was from there
I Knew what self harm was. But I never knew anything about it. When I started, all I knew was that it helped me, and that I didn't want people to find out why. I knew that people would think I was attention seeking and that it was a bad thing.
When people did find out, I got into a lot of trouble with people at school, so I agree, It hink people need to be more aware of self harm. Especially parents and teachers. They need to know what to do if they're ever faced with the situations. When my teachers found out, they basically just yelled at me and got me into alot of trouble. It was awful.
If I, and others knew abot self harm, then it would have been alot easier for me. And other people.
She Was Kinda Fragile
And She Had Alot To Grapple With
But Basically She Kept It All Inside....
...howl, i would be up for organising something because i didnt have a clue what it was when i started and if i knew just how much s*** can come along with it, i would have probably thought twice and found something else to help me cope. x
"Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge. Knowledge is Limited. Imagination Encircles The World". A. Einstein
I Didn't Have A Clue What Self Harm Was When I Started I Just Thought I Was Mental Or Something Because No One Ever Talked About Stuff Like That It Started Out With Small Scratches And Cuts At Age 11 Then By The Time I Got To High School I Had To Take Health As A Compulsary Subject Thats Where I Learnt What I Had Been Doing Was Self Harm, In A Way I Was Releived Because There Was A Name For What I Had Been Doing To Myself On The Downside Though It Confirmed I Had A Mental Illness :(
I had no idea, I thought I was the only person in the world to do it. I'd been hurting myself from a really young age, so cutting just seemed like a "natural" step for me. I didn't know self harm was as common as it is, I thought I was a complete freak.
I realised what I was doing by accident really... on another website I go on there used to be a "Self Harm Support" topic, I was curious and so read through it. I was so so shocked there were other people like me.
My school didn't even cover eating disorders & depression, let alone self harm. Something does need to be done about it, people need to be aware of what it is and why it's used.
I didn't know about it and it took at least 2 years before I could admit to myself that it even was self-harm and that others were doing it aswell. I was totally in "there's no one like me"-denial.
I'd heard of it, but I didn't actually know what it really involved. I guess I was slightly naive on the whole topic. I thought it was for crazy people who wanted to kill themselves. I guess I was very wrong!
x
Do it for those who know you can and for those who think you can’t.
Yeah hence the reasoning for mine eand xxendlesszz es campaign, i fyo uwant it more recognised and les taboo sign the petition! lol, i nmy sig, its to make it more heard of so people like us are aware. ect.
i think that so few kids are aware of it until they actually do it themselves because adults are afraid to talk about it. they think that mentioning it to kids who don't know about it already will just make them go and SI, when actually it could prevent them from doing it in the first place if they were more aware of it and its consequences.
I knew about SI before i started doing it, but only because I know so many other people that do it. And then I didn't understand the full consequences.
Eve xxx
I never cut until I was 14, but I always punched myself and gave myself bruises for as long as I can remember, and I never actually knew that that was a form of self harm.
When I cut I knew it was self harm, but I was too upset to actually care about anything at that moment in time.
The thing with youtube vids saying not to self harm doesn't really seem all that helpful though. How many people who are angry/upset/numb or whatever reason they are cutting will look at youtube vids first? I never thought about looking at anything on the internet before I first cut...
It might be helpful if anyone was just deciding to 'try' it, but I think people need to be made more aware about self harm.
to be honest..it sounds strange..but i don't actually remember the first time i cut..
i'm pretty sure i didn't know it was self-harm..
but i was only 11..i don't even know why i did it..i just wanted to feel pain..i guess, or i just dont know..
