Self Harm

WARNING: CONTAINS IMAGES THAT MAY BE TRIGGERING. DO NOT WATCH IF EASILY TRIGGERED.

CALM stands for Career And Life Managment; it's a manditory program presented by our school board. One of our projects was to choose an issue (such as self harm, anorexia, drug abuse etc), research it, and present it. I chose self-harm because it's an issue I've dealt with, but have never really understood.

I'm ashamed to admit that I didn't start with the goal of helping people when I made this project. My target audience was my teacher, and thus the video was created to the exact criteria outlined in the assignment. It wasn't made for anyone. Uploading the video to Youtube was essentially an accident. But if the video itself or discussions around it help even one person, then I've accomplished more than I ever thought possible.

The research was really hard to do, and the song that's supposed to go with it (Save You- Simple Plan) still make me go postal. I went through a lot of depressing information, a lot of pictures and videos that were extremely hard to watch, a lot of suicide stories. I saw a lot of people on the edge, watched their stories, and found myself hoping for the lives of strangers. Throughout, I mostly felt helpless that there were so many beautiful people in so much pain out there. SH really is a twisted issue.

Here's some websites:
http://www.helpguide.org/mental/self_injury.htm
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/pain/microsite/culture4.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/medical_notes/4067129.stm
http://www.youtube.com/user/SoLostInYou

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Harm
• Help
• Save
• Self
• You

[skittlemix]

Has To Be One Of The Best Vids I've Found Explaining What Self Harming Is About!

[creativewriter1000]

I hope everyone is trying to recover. I know I am.

[malikalovesrainbows]

@marinalovesbb its evanescence - hello... Lead singer Amy lee wrote it about her sisters death. x

[xalicia5285x]

I'm pretty sure anorexia is self-harm though. Not self-injury but at least counts as self harm.

[russianlegohouse]

It was a huge relief, when I finally told my dad. I've been going to therapy for a month, they've put me on medication and I have MDD, a nurse has been visiting me every week. I want to say that it has got better. I'm now living with my dad, suicide isn't always the thing on my mind. Learn to love the simpler things in life, I've been learning guitar, it's a huge stress relief, try and tell someone, it will help, I thought I was the only one in this situation, remember YOU are not alone (PART 4)

[russianlegohouse]

I never told anybody, I thought that nobody cared. I started getting depressed, I didn't go outside, hardly went to school, I was scared of everything, I started having panic attacks, I wanted to commit suicide, I even planned to take a pill overdose, every day I would sit in a dark room, hating everything about life. I isolated myself, which isn't a smart thing to do. Then I started to realize that I needed help. The only thing that mattered to me in the world was killing myself. (PART 3)

[russianlegohouse]

After a while the feelings started to kick in the hatred, the depression, everything. I used to fake being ill so I wouldn't have to go to school, my teachers made fun of me, it was basically hell. Then, I started to hate myself, think that nobody loved me, I hated being alive. I started to cut myself, it was the only thing that could stop me thinking about all the crap in my life. It started to become an addiction. (PART 2)

[russianlegohouse]

Hi to everyone who is watching this video. I'm 13 and I bottled up all of my emotions that were taking over my life. My mum verbally abused me and neglected me, I had to provide and look after myself in my childhood. I've never had the chance to be a kid, I've never had the chance to ride a bike, climb a tree, go swimming, even act like a kid. My parents are divorced, my mum was is an alcoholic, she left me all day, to go drinking, stole my money, she thought it was all very amusing. (PART 1)

[Rain96METALLIK]

@1990Jackbauer  Yeah it was my arm, but im alright now.

[1990Jackbauer]

@Rain96METALLIK where did u cut yourshelf? your arm or what?

[babyseul4]

thank you for pposting this...i used to cut...it has been 7 yrs since i did anything like that....now i feel like i am not alone.