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So, what about grief? Grief is an often misunderstood or at least undervalued emotional process that we all experience at certain points in our life. Although painful, it allows us time and space to process, properly enabling us to heal and carry on with our lives.
Today is National Self-harm Awareness Day and so we’re here to debunk the biggest myths you’ll hear flying around about self-harm, and to offer some advice for supporting someone who is self-harming. So let’s start with the myths People who self-harm are suicidal Sometimes this is true, but most people who self-harm are trying to find a way to survive. The technical term for it is ‘non-suicidal self-injury’ and it’s an extreme coping mechanism.
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