self-harm

In times of crisis, your mental health is just as important as your physical well-being.

Most people assume suicide rates will be highest in winter, yet spring/early summer is whensuicidal behaviours peak and this finding has baffled researchers since first identified. 

Self-harm is a serious problem that can profoundly impact a person’s life. As a therapist, it is essential to be able to assess for self-harm.

These statistics are alarming and bring to the fore how young people’s mental health is a rapidly worsening crisis.

Low cholesterol may also be a sign people with schizophrenia are at high risk of self-harm, suicide, and violence.

Self-harm is something that can be really hard to get past.

The answer to this isn’t completely conclusive. It all depends on how societies see mental health and self-harm.

Clinicians do not have a reliable way of predicting which patients are likely to make a suicide attempt.

A new study suggests that non-suicidal self-injury may be contagious among teenagers.

Fegans provides professional counselling for over 400 children every week across London, the South East and Oxfordshire.

You might already have an idea about what self-harm is, or you may even have experienced it yourself.

Young people who have a low sense of belonging at their schools are nearly seven times more likely to self-harm than those who feel attached to it.

Let’s start by saying that I self-harm; I self-harm regularly in a way that society tends to approve of.