I get really pissed when I hear the theory that it's a teenagers illness or problem and that you should grow out of it. Also what gets my goat is support sites that have an age top of 25 to help and support - usually named 'young people's sites'. It's as if when you hit 26 all should be fine and dandy. I'm 32, started self harming when I was 15 but am still doing it 17 years later.
We need more services that will help, support, offer advice, encouragement etc for adult self harmers specifically because we face a different set of problems as adults than teenagers do so advice offered to a 15 year old child still at school should be different from that offered to an adult in full time work with a mortgage and kids (for example)
Yeah this subject really winds me up
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