Thank you for this

hey i found your channel a couple weeks ago, you've really helped, and im so glad you are here to help people with this stuff. Im so glad your back man!

Great video! I discovered your channel a few months ago and i’ve watched almost all of them. I’m especially intrigued with topics of self harm in adults since i think we’re more ‘quiet’ about it idk that’s just what i think. I’ve relapsed recently after 4 years away from it..your videos help me feel less alone and understood though so thank you! Also, have you considered making a podcast or do you have one? (Sorry for the long comment)

Could you do a video discussing depictions of self harm in movies/tv shows?

Thank you so much for saying “relapse is not a destination,relapse is never a step backwards” that has helped me immeasurably. Wishing you well.

Brilliant video Scott!! Thank you

Despite difficult times, your posts are always a ray of hope for me- I hope your struggles will offer you comfort when dealing with them, knowing that you’ve touched many others in positive ways. Please be gentle and good to yourself and know that you have helped others along their road. Prayers go out to you, that might ease you at this time. Thinking of you.

If your depressed you don’t care about music and movies and I don’t laugh anymore

I’m in my 50’s and I self harm. I used to self harm in my teens up until my 30’s. I started again just recently. 😢

So extremely identified, especially with the need of outside counseling for the black and white thinking and the mood swings that are more like mood explosions.

Your description is extremely spot on when I cutted myself. I had been harboring extremely negative emotions and experiences in my past. Be it past break ups, rejection of a girl I loved and had a connection with, social isolation (as an 🇺🇸 in 🇷🇺), lack of financial stability as I currently have no job and live off an allowance, anhedonia in virtually all activities that I loved, a lack of purpose in my life, and resentment to my conception. Like extreme anger and shame for breaking up my mother and father when they loved each other 20+ years ago.

I’m 25 years old and have cutted both of my wrists for the first time since 16. Back then I was in denial over a break up and hid my scars well-anytime people asked why I wore my long sleeved shirt I told them that I was cold. Even my mother never knew either at that time. But the situation of me cutting myself at 25 was compounded of years worth of negativity. Hatred towards my myself, hatred and shame towards my conception, failing to love and disgust and scorn towards women (so many failed relationships in my teenage years), extreme anger to my father for failing to acknowledge and love me, to extreme shame to a girl I fell in love with after learning she loves another guy and not me, plus the lack of a job and sense of life purpose only fuels my negative attitude. I have come to the conclusion we are like animals but obsessed with money to buy our happiness. In fact humanity in my experience and opinion, are the worst species created on this planet. If I was God-I’d kill off my art piece then commit suicide. This is how much anger, scorn, disgust and resentment I harbor towards humanity as a whole within my blackened soul.

I do want to get better, but feeling bad just feels safer and more familiar.

Really didnt think this would make me so emotional, but it did. Your message is so thoughtful and beautiful. Thank you 100x

My cuts are ususally 1-3cm. Today I did a couple of those 1-3cm cuts then did a way longer cut… 3/4 times the size of the others nearly… I don’t know if I’ll keep doing the small ones or if they’ll get bigger..

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Always appreciate your videos, you’re doing a service to us watching struggling as well by having the tough conversations. God bless you ♥️and you are never alone.

I first started self-harming when I was about 23, and the urges would come and go. I'm now 52 and it's been at least two years since I felt such a strong need to do it that I actually did. But I doubt I'll ever stop thinking about it completely. I know on an (intellectual?) level that there's no shame in admitting to self-harm, but when I relapse I avoid telling anyone except my closest friend. Too many people, even compassionate people, are visibly uncomfortable hearing about self-harm. I have yet to know someone else 'in real life' who is struggling with it, and I'm grateful for this supportive video and all the posts from plus-25 people experiencing the same thing.

I so appreciate your channel. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart

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Hey i dont know if you will read this but i just found your channel tonight and i love your channel, you sound like such a amazing guy. Im really proud of you and how far you have come, and i hope your doing a bit better. Im glad your here to help others like me you really mean a lot to lots of people man. Please dont forget to stay strong and live on dude!

T.Y. .. I hurting so badly again. I just made another Foolish mistake,.. i just lost my major structure in my life, i lost my career job i loved of 20yrs. Im hating myself again, I got anxiety, insomnia, and the dreaded depression. Ive called the hotlines. I just want this torture to end.

I keep attempting over doses but it doesn't work. I don't want to be here but keep being bought back

Thanks for being so compassionate, supportive and understanding ❤

Glad to see you're back

It’s relieving to notice that my mindset that I’ve been having for the last couple of depressive months isn’t illogical or weird. Thanks for that.

I am scared of getting better. I've been dealing with this overthinking of what I would do in the future, of what I can do for the future or of how I can stop losing my life that it almsot has become, my identify. If I get rid of it, I feel like I'll feel empty, that'll I'll feel emptier. That I'll feel like a part of me has been taken away and I dont want this to happen. If I'm honest it's almost like I dont wanna lose myself. I'm only 14 and I know that I have all the time of the world, but I just cannot seem to completely understand this fact.

Rang Samaritans......."all our volunteers are busy!!!....please try again laTER??" Rang "PIETA HOUSE"....PUT THROUGH TO A "THEERAPEST"......Explained how I was feeling...longg silences....."Are you still there??" ..... Qiuet yes!!... Continue to talk....then geet FU*ING CUT OFF!!!....i'M SORRY!!! Was I BORING YOU???!!!!

Each time I tried going out on SUPER hot days, especially at the beach my mom yelled at me for my scars and told me to “ put that shit away “ meaning to cover them up and I haven’t been able to show them since arghhhh I hope when I’m an adult I can find the confidence to start wearing short sleeves and shorts again Even tho this videos old I’m proud of you!! :)

This was a great video. Hung onto every word you said. I believe that before mental health became something mainstream, this is how people dealt with their issues. Sometimes they dealt really badly and other times they had good coping mechanisms. Everyone was expected to deal with their problems in this manner. Which is why probably they don't think too much about the ups and downs of life. The ups make them really happy and they store it in their minds as a memory, the downs make them really upset so having no other choice, they'd rush to solve the problem. This is how simple life was. Store happiness and solve sadness. I felt like Id been doing good progress over the past few weeks and it all came falling down yesterday. I spent time crying about it. And my thoughts of how I haven't recovered at all put a dent in me. But honestly, I am recovering, I am better than before. I'm dealing with my problems in a better way. I'm trying to store the happiness and I'm working on solving the sadness. And I'm finding better solutions and hacks every time. It does make me feel like running after an abstract idea of recovery is a waste of energy because the goals are different to the normal "healthy" people. We have to just shift our focus and solve the sadness as it comes 💖 THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

I always wondered why am I not getting better. Even when I talk to my mom, I told her once that maybe I don't want to get better. But the truth is, I don't think I can get better. I have been trying for years now to get better but I keep falling into old destructive habits, self sabotage fuck ups. I'm in one huge fuck up right now. And I keep spiralling downwards. I recently began opening up about my struggles but I see its of no use. No one understands me. They just think I gotta do something that they recommend and that will solve my problems but then they give up when it doesn't work. I don't think I can get better. And I think that's the truth.

How TF can you tell I’m a “strong person”

So sorry for your loss. You do what you need to do to get yourself feeling better, grief is an individual thing. Take care. I also wanted to thank you for this content. It’s made me feel less alone with my diagnosis and addiction. Keep up the good fight. And congrats on the year clean.

Yay love to see you back ❤

I hope it gets better, please please stay living this life. Thankyou for so much, really you can’t understate the impact you have. So sorry for your loss 💕

No need to apologise for your absence at all, you're doing so well x

There's a peculiar background sound in this video. Whatever it is, i really like it!!!

My condolences. I also lost my last grandparent in winter this year. It felt like a new era, like i am no longer a grandchild. I stepped up a ladder in generation and as well as feeling really sad, it also feels odd and takes time to get emotionally used to...

I was just wondering how you were doing. Good to see you post something! Sorry to hear about your grandmother.

Sorry for your loss. You’re so brave to be where you’re at. Good work!

Youth Potential, great content keep up the good content

Im so sorry that your grandmother passed away my condolences

❤I hope you’re well

Thank you for helping me…

I really appreciate this video, I feel like this isn't talked about enough. I know that seeing SH posted online was bad for my mental health, but it's hard for me not to blame myself for how that content affected me. Thanks for talking about this❤

Man you’ve been keeping me from doing some bad stuff to myself recently I relapsed too much I gotta stop. You are a beautiful guy