Self-Help Guide for People who Self-Harm
Self-Help Guide for People who Self-Harm
It’s designed to help people who deliberately harm themselves and wish to do something about it. The booklet includes information on understanding self-harm and suggestions that may help you manage your self-harming behaviour.
The self-help booklet also has information for family and friends who may find it hard to understand their loved one’s behaviour.
Related Resources
Taking Control of Self-HarmWhat leads you to self-harm? Increasing your understanding of the situations, feelings or thoughts that are likely to trigger the urge to self-harm can help you begin to make changes.- Short-Term Solutions to Self-HarmingA ‘safety list’ of solutions that might help you to stop self-harming.
- Self-Harm a Self-Help GuideThis brief self-help guide was developed by the Lothian Psychological Interventions Network. It provides information on what self-harm is and some tips on how to manage it.
- Self-Harm Focussed AppsWe have collated some apps that are useful for managing self-harm.
The Wellbeing Lothian website has been developed to provide information, self-help resources and links to help you manage your mental health and wellbeing.
We want to help you make changes in your own lives and point you in a direction to start doing so. This is Wellbeing Lothian’s aim.
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