Today is SIAD a day to bring awareness to self harm and self injury http://www.firstsigns.org.uk/siad/
Self-harming is a bigger problem than a lot of people believe. It's so easy to hide the evidence! I never knew that there was an awareness day, thanks for bringing it to my attention!
It is absolutely horrible that anyone had the need to hurt themselves. Sadly, many do so only because there is no alternative.
is that just an american organisation or is it global do you know? glad that finally associations exist to help peeps with this affliction... also, do you know if psychological self-harm is included/recognised as yet or is it the physical side only?
it's complicated...relentless negative thoughts/feelings about oneself could be the mildest manifestation of it...
SIAD is global and most self harm is physical harm such as cutting, burning,hi ting oneself,hitting things such as walls,ingesting poisons and choking themselves there are many more but thats all I could think of off the top of my head.
i'm not sure that physical self-harm is the most common, it could just be that it is the most acknowledged and visible (because it is physical) but, whatever, i'm glad that a global association exists to bring physical self-harm to light... :2thumbsup:
Its whack man... I cut my wrist a few times not I got these scars that are like dents all up my forearm... Made everything worse... Dumb shit man.
ive struggled with depression substance abuse and other thing for quite some time im getting help but the quality of life that i think i can expect seems not worth having which of course makes it harder to do anything about it. i am in therapy and fortunatly my parents have the means and the intrest in helping me so i know things could be a ton worse i still hurt tho to answer the question i am afraid of living a life that is forevertoil and misery with no achievments as to weather im ok or not the answer is no i think what you might want to know is am i in danger the answer is no. i am nder the care of a treatment group that is the world leader in their field and have been given enough tools to keep me alive untill they can help me. i am very lonely though and hearing respones to my posts lessens that so i very much appreciate the compassion you have shown
Well, I wish I had the quality of life that I want. HA! Won't happen. That's good that you have therapy. It can help a lot. Join the club. Actually the first one answered what I was asking about. Really? That's good. Let's hope they can get to you a lot sooner. Yeah, loneliness sucks. That's why I asked if you're ok. I have this crazy idea that in this crazy world we need to stick together. Especially when times get tight. So you're more than welcome! If you need someone to talk to, feel free to PM Me. But be forewarned- I'm not always online. Sometimes it may be a few days.
my treatment team has decided on my diagnoses. they are bipolar type 2 and borderline personality disoder. although these are diagonoses that can be a little duanting they have perviosly have not been given me which can explain why prior treatments have not been very succesful particularly the medications are different. the therapy approach for bpd is differeant too so i feel more hopeful also thankyou logan 5 for your continued posts i am pretty sure that i can't private message yet do to being a new member if interested my email is quaidlogic@gmail.com
I'm happy for you! You have a long road ahead, and it all begins with the first step. You're more than welcome. As for the guest status, I think I waited 2-3 weeks or so. No worries. I'll still be here when you "graduate"! Noted!
