There's Always Light at the End of the Tunnel

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Even celebrities can suffer from mental illness. It can happen to anybody at anytime but we can all over come our difficulties.

I found this and thought that it was a great video and decided to share it on my blog.

Many people SH for many different reasons so there is no way that I can write this post telling people all of the reasons as to why people self harm because everybody has their own reasons for doing it. My reasons for self harming in short are because it makes me feel in control of my life and also because it is better than thinking about the bad memories that I have from my past but I do know that SH is not the way to deal with the feelings that I have and you should certainly not SH. There are many other ways of coping with feelings and emotions that we have and it is really just about finding the thing that works for you. Weather it is talking, exercise, using a stress ball, going out with friends anything is better than self harm because once you start it its very hard to stop because it becomes an addiction and can take a long time to stop. Think about yourself for a bit now and answer some of these questions.: What would your life be like if you didnt self harm? Who is the ...

Many people dont know a whole lot about self-harm. More people need to begin to talk about self-harm so that people who do SH dont feel like they need to keep it a secret. Im not trying to promote SH or anything like that but I think that people need to become more aware of this and need to be more open and understanding about it so that more people might feel able to come forward and talk about what is going on for them and find ways that they can cope better than using SH. While I have been learning more about SH I have learned some things that people think about SH that are not true and I think that people need to stop thinking these things and realise that SH can happen to anybody at anytime! Only a few very sick people SH....This is not true at all. Anybody can SH at anytime in their lives. Teens who SH are trying to commit suicide.... This is also not true. Many people who SH do it because it is a way of coping. If you self-harm it doesnt mean that you want to die. SH an sui...

When I first started to self-harm I didn’t tell anybody and take this from someone who knows that keeping it to yourself is not a good idea believe me. You might feel scared, nervous ,ashamed and so many other feelings and emotions when you start to think about   telling someone but once you do tell someone you may begin to feel a lot better…. I know I did. Not having to keep it this huge big secret anymore was a huge relief and it was a giant weight taken off my shoulders. Letting someone know can make a huge difference to your life…. You might not think it now but I sure know that if I hadn’t told someone I would not be here writing this post right now today because I would be too busy self-harming. You might feel that your parents will me mad, disappointed but sometimes you can actually be surprised about how your parents react to things like this. I know that I was surprised by my dad’s reaction when he found out that I was self-harming. Now that he knows I am getting the h...

The other day I was doing some work on learning how to cope with my self harm and one of the things I learned that would be useful for me is to make a self harm emergency kit. This kit would have things that you feel that could help you when you are feeling very low and you are struggling with the urges to self harm. This box could be big or small and have as much things or as little things in it that you want. You can even be able to bring it around with you if you feel like it will help you. The things that I would like to have in my self harm emergency kit are: Photos of me and my friends. Photos of my mam and grandad. Photos of me and my family. Some nice sented candles. A stress ball. A rubber band. Some soft fabric. A pen and some paper. Im sure as I think of it more and more I might add some more things to my list but right now I am happy with all of the things that I can put in my emergebncy kit because I feel that if I was struggling with my urges things like...

I have written this post before and I have decided to publish it again because it is something that I have experienced in my life and I think it is really important that we begin to talk about it now rather than later. Many people don't like talking about things like self-harm or suicide but we need to talk about these things to help prevent them from happening as much as they are happening now. People also don't like talking about mental health difficulties and they are far more common than you think. I have mental health difficulties myself and I have found that many people don't talk about them and that there is a huge stigma attached to people who have mental health problems. People also have a view of hospitals for people who are mentally ill and I can assure you now that they are not like what you see in the movies..... they are completely different! Right now I don't have time to write a post on mental health but I will get writing it on paper and then when I hav...