SELF-HARM TO SELF-HARMONY: A PERSONAL JOURNEY OF OVERCOMING SELF-HARM

Self-harm, depression, anxiety, bullying, fragile relationships, medication, therapy, lack of ambition, loneliness, psychiatric wards and suicide are all things that I'm familiar with.Not through studies or things I have read about on the internet.They are all things I experienced as a teenager and young adult.Every day was either a battle with myself or someone else, more often it was both.I struggled to cope with life and manage my own thoughts and emotions, which lead to constant self-harm and a few suicide attempts.In Self-harm to Self-harmony I, Scott, take the reader on a journey through my childhood, where the seed was planted that would eventually lead to my mental health problems, right up to the point here I had managed to stop self-harming and could enjoy the blessings of life.Between those two points I fell into depression, started self-harming, struggled to get along with my family, was bullied regularly, had many therapy sessions, was prescribed medication, suffered with