Self-Help Guide for People who Self-Harm

Here’s a self-help guide prepared by NHS Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear.

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.

Self-Harm – An NHS Self Help Guide

Related Resources

Taking Control of Self-Harm
What 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-Harming
A ‘safety list’ of solutions that might help you to stop self-harming.

Self-Harm a Self-Help Guide
This 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.
Increase Your Positive Activities
An exercise in helping you find a balance in life and actively putting those positive activities back into your life.

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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