Victoria Deborah is a Birmingham-born social media influencer. When she was 21, social media pressures became too much for her and she found herself consumed by depression and negative thoughts.

This is the third blog in a three-blog series on the subject of self-injury. 

This is the second part of a two part blog series (part one available here) that discusses the very taboo topic of self harm/injury, from here on in referred to as SI.

Being stuck inside for such a long time and now the ‘month of love’ coming up, it is inevitable to not be eaten up by the thoughts of self-worth and how much love we deserve.

Trigger warning. This blog talks, in depth, about self-injury/self-harm and suicide.

With World Mental Health Day being on the 10th of October, this year’s theme has been announced to be “mental health for all”.

I recently went to the pub for the first time since the end of lockdown. It took me two hours to leave my flat.I was due to attend end-of-term drinks with my writing group. As I started getting ready, the unease started to grow. I knew all too well what was coming.

According to mental health charity MIND, one in six people in England report experiencing ‘common mental health problems’ every week, with one in four people experiencing mental health problems each year. Anxiety falls into the common mental health problem box, and I feel fairly confident in saying that number is vastly under-inflated.