#shawareness

[drawbecauseitsheard]

A Short Comic PSA made for Self Harm Awareness Day 2022! #arttherapy #dontcensormyskin #shawareness #mentalhealth #selfcare #shrecovery #traumahealing https://www.instagram.com/p/Cam3uCPORyR/?utm_medium=tumblr

[gymrat01111]

The thing I hate most about that trend with ‘broken wind serenade’ you know the one where people post “and you feed your addiction” with stuff like coffee or needohs in the background, I hate it so much. A caffeine addiction is not serious because yes you can have with-drawls but it overall has almost no effect on your mental or physical state, unlike other addictions. Caffeine doesn’t threaten your health. It is not a harmful addiction, yes it can affect you if you stop cold turkey. But as I said it has almost no effect on your mental or physical state.

Now I know some may say “oh by that logic then it’s not okay to use that trend for SH” but self harm acts like an addiction. It affects your brain the difference is that a self harm “addiction” is a behavioural addiction rather than a substance addiction. It acts in the same way as an addiction as many professionals note it as having emotional triggers and urges that can cause a relapse. In-fact UKAT the UK Addiction Treatment service states

“Studies suggest similarities between self-harm and addiction, noting emotional triggers, strong urges, and criteria overlap with substance dependence. However, unlike substance use, self-harm is primarily perpetuated by negative reinforcement, and its recurrence is better explained by emotional processes rather than addiction mechanisms.”

Self harm is an issue whether we can count it as an addiction or not.

I simply dislike this full trend due to the fact that it can make people take addictions less serious, an addiction is not a quirky thing, it’s an illness that affects you and the people around you.

Mental health matters, whether you’re an addict, suicidal, or just struggling. Reach out to someone.

[vsprincessdiaries]

when you deadass forgot u relapsed and then you change in front of a mirror and you’re like “oh shit, that”

[vsprincessdiaries]

tw

being in a shit mental space is so weird

because you’ll just go about your normal life, interacting with all the people you usually do, and you realise they have no clue what’s going on in your head

they have no clue you’ve been thinking about killing yourself

they have no clue you relapsed the other night

they have no clue your legs sting whenever your pants rub against the fresh cuts

they have no clue that you spend 30 minutes just trying to get out of bed

they have no clue that you cry until you can’t anymore and then when you finally have more tears you cry again

they have no idea that you regularly think about what would happen if you really did kill yourself

being in a low mental state is so weird

because nobody knows

and you really want to talk to people, message people, hang out with people or call people or something because you know you can’t be left alone with your own thoughts but you don’t have anybody to reach out to

[vsprincessdiaries]

my pants keep rubbing against my legs ffs

[drawbecauseitsheard]

Happy belated Self Harm Awareness Day 2022 #shawareness #twloha #mentalhealth #latinxartist #selfcare #traumarecovery #dontcensormyskin https://www.instagram.com/p/Cam38lFOX1s/?utm_medium=tumblr