Self-Harm & Suicide
Content Warning : Please be aware that the following information about mental health that may be confronting and challenging.
Self-harm is when you deliberately hurt yourself physically. It's often a way of trying to cope with intense feelings and emotions. Self-harm can be really dangerous, and has long-term effects on your physical and mental health. If you're struggling with self-harm, it's important that you get help and learn various ways of dealing with tough times.
Calm Harm provides tasks that help you resist or manage the urge to self harm. You can add your own tasks too and it's completely private and password protected.
Sometimes it can feel like it’s too hard to go on. Remember that suicidal thoughts are just thoughts – you don’t need to act on them. You can regain control. There’s info here on what to do when you feel this way, and how to help someone else.
Warning Signs - what to look out for
What to do it you if you are having thoughts about wanting to die
Click on the Sarah & Clare Comic to help support a friend.
Safe Haven
What is a Safe Haven?
A Safe Haven is a place you can go if you’re feeling distressed or having suicidal thoughts. It is a safe place where you can talk openly about how you are feeling and what you’re going through. A place where you can feel supported and not judged.
You can talk to a peer-support worker who may have experienced what you’re going through, or to a mental health professional.
If you don’t feel like chatting, you can spend time in a quiet space and listen to music.
It’s free and you don’t need an appointment.
Safe Haven
Location
Address: 55 Urunga Parade, Wollongong NSW 2500
Open: 2pm-10pm Wednesday to Saturday
Phone: 0401 561 164
Email: wollongong.safehaven@stride.com.au
Beyond Blue developed the Beyond Now app to help you make your own safety plan to support you through times of sadness or grief. You can make it on your phone and carry it with you to access anywhere and anytime.
The app guides you through, step-by-step, with suggestions at each stage if you get stuck. You can work through this process by yourself, but it’s better if a family member, an Elder, health professional or support person works with you to make your plan. You can update it anytime and easily share it with others if you want.
Usually when we talk about suicide we say those four magic words: "just ask for help". But Honor Eastly knows it’s not that simple. She’s been there and back, and now has years of phone recordings and diary entries, from the inside.
These recordings form the basis of this podcast, No Feeling Is Final.
This is a show for anyone who’s ever wondered if life is worth living. And for anyone trying to better understand their friend, partner or kid, who’s wrestled with these feelings themselves. At times heartbreaking, and desperate – but also darkly funny, and charming, No Feeling Is Final is a story of difference, identity, and why we should stay alive
Just a heads up, this show touches on some heavy lifting feelings territory — including what’s it’s like to feel so hopeless that you want to die. It’s not graphic — it’s not that kind of show. But there is some swearing.
Also — this is a memoir show. It’s about Honor’s experience trying to figure out some big stuff. So of course, it’s only one person’s story.