The Latest Breaking News from self-harm

Esther Ghey says daughter’s eating disorder and self-harm had been exacerbated by harmful online content

Men are nearly six times more likely than women to die from alcohol-related self-harm, as people in their 30s emerge as the most vulnerable age range.

Charity director warns ‘more deaths will follow’ unless government changes tack and closes women’s prisons

Five men accused of using extortion threats to bully young gamers into performing degrading and sexually explicit acts on web cameras

Exclusive: Separate research shows number of young children having suicidal thoughts has risen at ‘alarming’ rate

It’s as if everyone at No 10 has had a collective breakdown, an act of self-harm on an unimaginable scale

Alice Figueiredo’s mother has criticised staff for ‘indifference, ignorance, even at times cruelty’

Alice Figueiredo, 22, died in 2015 on the Hepworth ward at Goodmayes hospital after 18 similar attempts to self-harm

Most of us know what it’s like to be a teenager at school – and how it feels to fit into (or fall outside of) a school’s social hierarchy. This typically includes some version of the popular kids, the loners and the in-betweeners, who have friendships that span across different…