Not sure I did the right thing....

[NumbForest]

Hi everyone.
A couple of days ago, I decided to contact a news paper about self harm. I am getting really tired of hearing jacked up attitudes towards self harm. i hear people saying it is attention seeking, or it is pathetic and really they know nothing about it what so ever. So I decided I have had enough of these attitudes and I really want people to understand what it can be like. So i contacted my local aper and asked if they would run a story on it, they have asked for my number and said they will discuss it further with me. So I gave them my number just now, but now I am worried cause i'm not sure I can be totally open about it, or whether it will just fuel peoples attitudes that it is attention seeking. I a worried that I have definatly done the wrong thing, but by the same token someone needs to say something to change attitudes about it, what do you think?
Hugs
Samm
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[Raven]

go for it. raising awareness is a good thing. maybe if you write it all out, then you wont get flustered when they phone back x

[Duffer44]

Your doing a good thing. You are trying to raise awareness on something very few people fully understand. People who don't know much about SH and fix what they believe on what they have read in the papers or heard on the news. Getting your side heard and giving people the truth about the topic can't do any harm. Maybe you could ask to read what they say before they send it to print so they are getting your view across.

I did it once before. On some current affairs programme in Australia. They were nice enough to blur my face so I could have some anonymity. You can always ask them to use a different name if you're not up to it. I think it's a great thing you're doing. :)