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Im so angry i want to kill myself11/27/2023 When boys do ask for help, the system fails them. I want to get help but I can't tell my parents, I literally have nobody I can talk to. I've felt so shit 24/7 for the past year it's got to the point where I started sh again and my depression has just takin over completely. I don't want to upset or make anyone angry/disappointed” Boy, 14, Tellmi I want to talk to someone about my self-harm and feelings and other stuff but i don't know who or how. I want to talk to people about how I feel I have anxiety I self-harmed but I just don’t know what to do now - I’m not close to any teachers at school & I don’t feel comfortable talking to my mum about it - I feel like I’m stuck :( Boy, 15, Tellmi This makes it much easier for boys to be honest about issues such as self-harm. The Tellmi app is an anonymous, genderless, social media space, where usernames are randomly generated within the app, and all visual hierarchies have been stripped out. Boys are particularly unwilling to talk to adults about self-harm and they are reluctant to seek help for psychological distress ( Gulliver, Griffiths, & Christensen, 2010). Gender roles and the stigma around mental health issues make it harder for young males to ask for help (NCB, 2016). Is it healthy to hit myself/ slam my head against walls when I have anxiety attacks my parents think I’m faking being scared of almost everything Boy, 14, TellmiĬan exercise be self-harm? I’ve done 11 hours on the bike this week I’m in so much pain Boy, 18, Tellmi I am really confused, I think I self-harm, like I dig my nail into the side of my hand when I am really stressed and I had some kind of dissociative episode thing so instinctively smacked myself in the face with a glass bc- I’m a mess and it gives me some sort of relief, but I don't cut myself. Having a behaviour confirmed as self-harm by the Tellmi peer community allows boys to ‘name’ what they are doing. When boys don’t understand their own self-harm behaviours, it increases their level of anxiety, and this in turn, increases the likelihood of self-harm. Self-harm is essentially a mechanism for relieving stress. Boy, aged 17, Tellmiīoys are not always sure that their behaviour constitutes self-harm. I've started cutting again and I don’t know how to stop myself. Im also doing a lot of physical exercise to hurt myself but no one notices. I’ve stoped eating and when I have eaten I throw it back up. When I was massively excessively exercising (to the point I damaged my body) people knew that's what I was doing and they didn't care, but once they noticed the scars on my wrist they all got concerned?. my harm is different Its not easily noticed by others Boy, aged 15, Tellmi Being able to talk openly about these issues is a relief. Some forms of self-harm are easier to ignoreīecause self-harm is a secret behaviour, boys find ways of hurting themselves that won’t be spotted easily. I feel nothing I just can't feel anything, cutting is the only thing that makes me feel alive. I've been burning but for me cutting is I'm a disappointment and a failure. last night I used a meat knife and I wasn't in control because I was trying so hard i had to go to the hospital. The more I self-harm the more it gets serious. Although boys experiment with a number of different methods of self-harm, cutting is still very widespread.
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