General Article The first time I said 'I self-harm'

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Hi, my name is Suzi and I am a self-harmer but I am seven and a half years cut free. That’s how I think of self-harming. I don’t self-harm now but I am always in recovery, just like being in AA.

I started self-harming from a young age but it was at university that things unravelled for me. I found more and more that I was on a self-destructive path and the self-harming got worse. I seemed to start suffering from depression, I stopped going to lectures, I was smoking cannabis a lot, I was dri...

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