 Hey what's up you guys welcome back to my channel if you're new here hi hello I'm Lydia and if you are new here make sure you hit the subscribe button Turn notifications on and make sure you give us a thumbs up that really does help me out Today we're talking about everything you need to know about self harm So what is self harm? Self harm is where a person hurts themselves on purpose Now I think the first misconception we need to get out of that is it's not just cutting Self harm can be in an array of different what's the word I'm looking for? That's not helpful I can't think of the word that I mean No no no That would make it better There's different types of self harm There's cutting, burning, overusing, swallowing objects that are strongly swallowed Drugs, alcohol. It's not always on arms Personally, I've only ever self-harmed on my arms and my chest. I've never self-harmed on my legs. My legs are just hairy. I look like a gorilla. The next misconception is it's only girls. Anybody of any age, any gender, can self-harm. It's a universal thing, it's not cutting, so it's not serious. No matter what type of self-harm it is, it is serious. So yeah, it's not just teenage girls. The next one I've got is it's attention-seeking. Self-harm is not for attention. When you self-harm, it often seems very secretive. You do, you don't really show other people. I've had all my uncovered tattoos, and I'm getting another one there on Wednesday, which this video's going up after them, so I've already got the tattoo. But it's a very secretive thing you do when someone self-harm. Even in the heat, you're wear long sleeves. So yeah, it's not attention-seeking. Please never say you're self-harming for attention. This is one thing you learn from this video, self-harm is not. Self-harm is an addiction. The pain you feel when you're self-harm, it's addictive. It makes you feel alive. I know for me I self-harmed just to self-harm and cope with things, but I also did it because I wanted to feel some of them. I was really depressed when I was self-harm, then. Next is people enjoy self-harm, then. Self-harm is not something anybody enjoys. It's very, luckily, something that we do our desperation. To feel something, to cope, to feel pain, it's not something anyone enjoys doing. One thing that you should always know about self-harm is that we're never doing it to hurt other people. When we self-harm, it's to hurt ourselves, punish ourselves, feel something. It's often occurs after a depression or a depressive episode because you just want to feel something other than sadness. It's a really hard thing to live with and deal with and it's such a secretive thing. We don't want people to find out. I know for me personally, no one in my family has ever seen fresh self-harm on me because I had to hit it or I lived on my own, but yeah. Thank you for watching and if you're new, subscribe, join the growing family. Thank you for watching and I'll see you on my next video. Peace.