Kate, 18, from Surrey

I was 12 when we initial started self-harming. At my Propagandize there was a lot of bullying and nuisance happening. Kids would chuck my things out a window, collect on me for how we looked and a song we listened to. There was a lot of sexting going on within a propagandize and we got targeted, that was unequivocally upsetting.

The initial time we self-harmed, it was around Christmas and we felt vexed and suicidal. we started self-harming to cope with my feelings. The pain dreaming me from what was going on inside me. we started to trust what people pronounced about me, all a disastrous comments, so it was a form of self-punishment too.

Social media done things worse: teenagers now see so most online. Once we stumbled opposite this video of a lady articulate about committing self-murder – during 12 or 13 years old, thatwas unequivocally heavy.

Eventually people beheld what we was doing. When we was removing altered for PE one day, some other students came adult to me after and said: “I attempted what we are doing.” It done me feel worse since they were creation a large understanding out of it in front of everyone. we thereafter felt like we was Perplexing to change others even yet we was perplexing to censor it. we felt guilty.

A integrate of my friends emailed a conduct of year about it, and he attempted to assistance though told my relatives though my permission. It done me feel indignant and some-more anxious. we had visit panic attacks during that time though we was not prepared for them to know.

He told me that he would be holding me out of lessons to go into counselling, that was utterly daunting. we finished adult going and it was terrible. we found it tough to speak to a stranger. She was a good chairman though we did not wish to open adult about what we was going by and a solicitor never brought it up. She let me contend what we wanted to contend though it backfired as we felt like we would not contend anything.

Young people are unprotected to a lot of bad influences now. For example, a Netflix uncover Thirteen Reasons Why is good for lifting recognition about Mental Health problems though normalises issues such as depression. A lot of people take quotes from it and dwell on it.

My propagandize should have asked some-more questions to check adult on students. we felt like we was only thrown into counselling and that was it. They didn’t check it was going good or ask how we was afterwards. we had a lot of friends going by identical things and was perplexing my best to assistance them though a propagandize wasn’t doing anything.

Another problem we had was that my self-respect was low and we felt like we was bad during all academically. we was awful during maths and science. we unequivocally wanted to do song during GCSE though they wouldn’t let me since they pronounced it wasn’t educational enough.

I had a outrageous panic conflict during my maths examination in year 10. After vouchsafing me ease down for a bit they only ushered me true in though indeed seeking me if there was any approach they could help. we didn’t pass my maths though we upheld my drama, art and all else.

Schools only support to people who are a same. Nowadays it is all about grades and who is a smartest. The people that don’t fit this criteria are done to feel worse, generally if they are struggling with their mental health.

My summary to those perplexing to tackle this is that immature people need to feel OK in themselves. It would have helped me if people had realised how low a emanate ran. They saw it as attention-seeking and we never got a assistance we needed. There should be some arrange of superintendence on what teachers need to do and how students should conflict to others going by it.