It affects all different kinds of people, with all different backgrounds, in all different social classes. Publication pending reported that 5.1 per cent of secondary school students surveyed in Victoria reported having deliberately harmed themselves The Western Australian Child Health Survey found similar rates of self-harm with 7.5 per cent of young people 12 to 16 years reporting that they had tried to harm themselves in the previous six months. Self-injury is a self-preservation technique for many cutters, the …showed first 75 words of 2260 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2260 total…own life. Each time, meet the real pain head-on and tolerate the distress. Therefore it loses a little of its power over you and it eventually becomes nothing but just a memory. The key is learning to handle distress without self-harming. A good way to do that is by getting support and another perspective by telling someone close to you about your problem. Yes it's hard but there is an alternative. Believe me, I know.