self-harm
I Was Relentlessly Harassed By the Media After Cutting My Own Penis Off
Andre Johnson, AKA Wu-Tang-affiliated rapper Christ Bearer, is recovering after the incident last year, but still thinks the media's approach to mental health needs to improve.
How Tattoos Can Ease the Emotional Pain of Self-Harm Scars
Instead of covering scars up with long sleeves, some choose to reclaim their scars or repurpose them into tattoos.
How Borderline Personality Disorder Put an End to My Party Days
At the time I was suffering most from the mental illness, everyone from my friends to my GP failed to understand what was wrong with me. Here's how I got better.
Searching for Reasons Why I Self-Harmed for Seven Years, and for Why I Stopped
From an outsider's perspective, it's hard to wrap your head around why, when humans instinctively avoid pain, someone would actively and regularly seek it out. But I did.
Beating Yourself Up to Get Out of an Arrest Is a Bad Plan
A video camera captured a man in Oregon giving himself two black eyes in a jail cell before claiming the cops were responsible.
