Episode 57: Self-Harm

Therapy Thoughts

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.4 • 651 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Trigger Warning: This episode discusses self-harm and specific means and ways folks may self-harm. This is intended to be an educational and supportive episode. It covers what self-harm is. It covers myths, stigma, statistics, the window of tolerance and how to cope in our individual trauma states. This episode offers suggestions for steps to take if you are struggling with self-harm. It also has suggestions for those of you who love someone struggling with self-harm.

Check out my emotional regulation course here —> https://tiffanyroe.com/collections/courses/products/emotional-regulation-course to learn how to better manage emotions and thoughts and develop coping skills.

Download my free window of tolerance thermometer sheet here —> https://tiffanyroe.com/pages/freebies (it includes coping skills for different states of dysregulation).

My Therapy thoughts are for educational purposes only and are not a replacement for a therapeutic relationship or individualized mental health or medical care.

*Note, it’s not March, this is being published a few months after I recorded it (LOL).

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Therapy Thoughts podcast.
0:08.8	This is Tiffany Rowe.
0:10.5	I'm a clinical mental health counselor and psychology teacher in Utah.
0:14.6	And I want to change the mental health game.
0:16.9	The Therapy Thoughts podcast is all about breaking down therapy-related topics and making mental
0:22.1	health information easy to understand and super accessible. So join me for quick and direct
0:28.4	educational episodes and some deeper dives with experts from around the world. Together, we are
0:34.6	going to break down stigma. We're going to help each other make peace with mind,
0:38.2	body, and food. We're going to make therapy cool and invest time in our mental health.
0:43.5	Let's do it here,harm. I want to bring this topic up because March is Self-Harm Awareness Month. It's a topic we need to be more open about, just like
1:14.8	everything we discussed here on the Therapy Thoughts podcast. Stigma does not help. Silence does not
1:21.2	help. So we have to start off every mental health discussion understanding. Silence doesn't
1:26.9	help. Silence doesn't help.
1:29.9	Silence fuel shame and isolation.
1:31.8	So let's talk about self-harm.
1:34.3	No shame in our mental health game.
1:39.2	It's often kept a secret because the shame around it, but you can overcome and recover self-harm.
1:43.3	Self-harm is sometimes called self-injury and what it is is hurting yourself
1:49.8	on purpose. So some people do this through cutting with a sharp object. Other people will burn or
1:58.8	scratch themselves or may pull out hair or pick themselves. Sometimes this can
2:04.8	become really extreme and it could be breaking their bones, hurting yourself or even thinking
2:12.1	about hurting yourself. This is a real issue that deserves treatment and help.
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