Hinesights Podcast_EP 32 _Ask Kev_HAVE YOU SELF HARMED & HOW DO I STOP: this mp3 audio file was automatically transcribed by Sonix with the best speech-to-text algorithms. This transcript may contain errors.
Kevin Hines:
My name is Kevin Hines. I jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge. I believe that I had to die, but I lived. Today, I travel the world with my lovely wife, Margaret, sharing stories of people who have triumphed over incredible adversity. Now, we help people be here tomorrow. Welcome to the HINESIGHTS podcast.
Kevin Hines:
What is cracking, Hope Nation? It's your friendly neighbor, Kevin Hines, and this is another round of Ask Kev, where you ask those questions throughout the webs of the internet, and I cultivate the answers, I stew them in a pot, I boil them to a brisket, a brisket? Well, whatever. And I answer those questions forthwith to you.
Kevin Hines:
The latest question is a serious one. This is a very serious question, so I want to pay it respect, I want to do this right. The question I've been asked by the interwebs most recently is have I ever self-harmed? And the answer is yes. I did self-harm twice in my life. One was a time when I was considering attempting suicide before my attempt off the Golden Gate Bridge, and one was a self-harm when I was in desperate pain and I wanted the pain to go away. Let's be clear, self-harming is a detriment to any of our loved ones' health, it is something that is a gateway to suicidal thinking, it is something that is very, very dangerous, but one of the things I know about self-harming is that it is not easy to break free from. It is like an addiction, it is like a drug, it envelops you whole, and it can take over your mind when you're in mental pain. So what I understand about self-harming is this, when you're weaning yourself off of self-harm to no self-harm, you have to do it slowly, carefully, and with the clinicians' care to make sure you're safe. And if not with the clinician's care, you have to find someone around you that's willing to help you break free from these habits. Twenty-one days of not self-harming makes not self-harming a habit, and after that, it becomes easier to go through life without self-harm, to be clean, they say, as they say, from self-harming. So, yes, I did self-harm in my life, twice, it was something that I did not make a regular habit, it was something that did not happen to me every day, it was almost by happenstance because I was in so much pain. But I recommend you getting assessed through clinical care, I recommend you reaching out to people in pain like yourselves who have overcome self-harm, I recommend you finding chat groups online that have overcome self-harm, they do exist, and I want you to realize that you have a future without self-harming. You have a future where life gets better. It's a matter of hard work, discipline, truth about your pain, and doing the work to defeat the addiction. I believe in you, I know you've got this, I love you and be here tomorrow. Bye guys.
Kevin Hines:
Margaret and I love sharing stories of people who have triumphed over incredible adversity. For more content and inspiration, go to KevinHinesStory.com or visit us on all social media at KevinHinesStory or on youtube.com/KevinHines.
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