33 min
Self Harm Awareness You Can Tell Us
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- Santé mentale
Trigger Warning: freuquent mentions of Self harm/Self injury
March is globally observed as self-harm awareness month. For this reason, we have dedicated this week's episode to this cause. The purpose of dedicating a month to self-harm awareness is to emphasize its prevalence within society, create awareness about it, and provide support to those who struggle with it.
In this episode, Leen (trainee clinical psychologist) and Saba (psychology graduate) discuss what entails self-harm or self-injury, the reasons leading up to this, some ways self-harm can show up, how to recognize it, how to seek and offer help. This episode highlights the importance of normalising such difficult conversations as a means to reach out to people suffering silently wthout receiving the care that they need, hushed by the judgment of society.
(00:47) - Trigger Warning: Frequent mentions of self-harm
(01:45) - What is self-harm
(02:18) - Myth: Everyone who self-harms wants to die
(03:01) - Correlation between MH disorders and self-harm
(03:50) - Why do people self-harm
(07:50) - A desire to get rid of emotions and emotional distress
(08:25) - Trying to get rid of emotions usually cause the emotions to become stronger
(09:36) - Risky coping mechanism
(10:18) - How others can help when someone they love self-harms: difficult to understand the intensity of emotional distress
(11:12) - Subjectivity of emotions as individuals
(12:45) - How you react to someone you love self-harming
(13:50) - Stigma motivates hiding self-harm
(14:21) - How should we react: coming from a place of understanding and spotting patterns
(16:11) - People who self-harm don’t want to be self-harming
(16:48) - Finding the right time to talk about
(17:27) - Being curious and non-judgemental
(18:25) - Be on the lookout for difficult things happening in a loved one’s life
(19:05) - Being non-judgemental of one’s owns feelings if you have self-harm habits/urges
(20:29) - Acknowledging the urge to self-harm as a feeling
(22:10) - Recognizing your own strength, and not running away from your own emotions through self-harm
(23:16) - Listing alternative coping methods as a replacement
(24:35) - Making spaces that you are in safer by removing access to methods of self-harm
(25:27) - Seeking professional help
(26:00) - Normalize going to therapy before things get unbearable
(28:00) - You don’t need to see evidence of self-harm to be there for people you love
(29:02) - The importance of a support system
(29:30) - Becoming open to emotions and their functions
(30:21) - Final thoughts
Trigger Warning: freuquent mentions of Self harm/Self injury
March is globally observed as self-harm awareness month. For this reason, we have dedicated this week's episode to this cause. The purpose of dedicating a month to self-harm awareness is to emphasize its prevalence within society, create awareness about it, and provide support to those who struggle with it.
In this episode, Leen (trainee clinical psychologist) and Saba (psychology graduate) discuss what entails self-harm or self-injury, the reasons leading up to this, some ways self-harm can show up, how to recognize it, how to seek and offer help. This episode highlights the importance of normalising such difficult conversations as a means to reach out to people suffering silently wthout receiving the care that they need, hushed by the judgment of society.
(00:47) - Trigger Warning: Frequent mentions of self-harm
(01:45) - What is self-harm
(02:18) - Myth: Everyone who self-harms wants to die
(03:01) - Correlation between MH disorders and self-harm
(03:50) - Why do people self-harm
(07:50) - A desire to get rid of emotions and emotional distress
(08:25) - Trying to get rid of emotions usually cause the emotions to become stronger
(09:36) - Risky coping mechanism
(10:18) - How others can help when someone they love self-harms: difficult to understand the intensity of emotional distress
(11:12) - Subjectivity of emotions as individuals
(12:45) - How you react to someone you love self-harming
(13:50) - Stigma motivates hiding self-harm
(14:21) - How should we react: coming from a place of understanding and spotting patterns
(16:11) - People who self-harm don’t want to be self-harming
(16:48) - Finding the right time to talk about
(17:27) - Being curious and non-judgemental
(18:25) - Be on the lookout for difficult things happening in a loved one’s life
(19:05) - Being non-judgemental of one’s owns feelings if you have self-harm habits/urges
(20:29) - Acknowledging the urge to self-harm as a feeling
(22:10) - Recognizing your own strength, and not running away from your own emotions through self-harm
(23:16) - Listing alternative coping methods as a replacement
(24:35) - Making spaces that you are in safer by removing access to methods of self-harm
(25:27) - Seeking professional help
(26:00) - Normalize going to therapy before things get unbearable
(28:00) - You don’t need to see evidence of self-harm to be there for people you love
(29:02) - The importance of a support system
(29:30) - Becoming open to emotions and their functions
(30:21) - Final thoughts
33 min