The Latest Breaking News from self-harm

Teenager hospitalised this week the latest in at least 54 self-harm or suicide attempts at NT youth detention centre since July 2021

Instead of being offered counselling, those assessed to be at risk of self-harm or suicide have been given ‘how to feel better’ handouts

Nick Kyrgios has opened up on a dark period in his life which saw him spiral out of control off the court, with the Australian self-medicating with alcohol and drugs, and self-harming

Men’s suicide is often linked to social and economic factors such as financial problems, legal issues and unemployment.

A recent research led by King's College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has analysed factors associated with self-harm in over 111,000 adolescents aged 11-17 years old. Read further on Dynamite News:

Self-harm – physically hurting yourself – is common in young people, affecting about one in five teens by the age of 18.

Emotions are tricky things. They allow for humans to fall in love, wage war and, as it turns out, engage in self-harm.

The rate of suicides among Indigenous children is at critical levels, experts say, with young Aboriginal people nearly five times more likely to die due to intentional self-harm than other young people in the same age range.