 In this series, I address your questions about self-harm. It's a tricky topic but I want us to talk more about it. If I haven't answered your question yet, leave it in a comment below and I will attempt to address it in a future video. Ellen on Instagram asked, do self-harm urges ever go away? This is a basically impossible question, Ellen. Thank you. But it's really gonna vary depending on the individual and depending on what the underlying issues are and what the driving thoughts, feelings, experiences are that are driving the self-harm. But what I can tell you for sure is that with practice, we can get better at recognizing when we might be getting to a point where we're gonna feel the urge to self-harm. So we might be able to manage ourselves and try and stop ourselves reaching that escalation point. We can get much better at that. So spotting the early warning signs, taking action earlier. And the other thing is that as we practice more and more healthier ways of coping so that might elicit a somewhat similar feeling to self-harm but without actually harming ourselves, then they can become more effective over time as well. So in just the same way that we might fall into a habit of self-harming and it becomes our go-to coping mechanism, over a period of time and with practice, we might learn to turn to other coping strategies instead. So you might, if you're someone who struggles with the urge to self-harm, it might be something that is perhaps present in your life in some capacity over the longer term, but that doesn't mean to say that you can't live a completely happy, healthy and fulfilling life and you can get to the point certainly where you're able to notice that thought and go, okay, I am beginning to feel those kinds of thoughts, those kinds of feelings that can sometimes lead to me needing to harm myself. What am I gonna do about that? And you become much, much better at doing that emotional regulation, coping healthily. So yeah, it can become much, much more manageable.