Book excerpt: Self-harm, depression, anxiety, bullying, fragile relationships, medication, therapy, lack of ambition, loneliness, psychiatric wards and suicide are all things that I'm familiar with. Not through studies or things I have read about on the internet. They are all things I experienced as a teenager and young adult. Every day was either a battle with myself or someone else, more often it was both. I struggled to cope with life and manage my own thoughts and emotions, which lead to constant self-harm and a few suicide attempts.In Self-harm to Self-harmony I, Scott, take the reader on a journey through my childhood, where the seed was planted that would eventually lead to my mental health problems, right up to the point here I had managed to stop self-harming and could enjoy the blessings of life. Between those two points I fell into depression, started self-harming, struggled to get along with my family, was bullied regularly, had many therapy sessions, was prescribed medication, suffered with anxiety, became an inpatient on psychiatric wards and tried to kill myself a few times. Not the average life of a young person.Living with self-harm, depression and other mental health problems isn't easy to live with and it's far from understood by the majority of the world. Those who suffer want to be understood and those who care about those who suffer wish to understand. With Self-harm to Self-harmony you gain an insight into the life of someone whom is struggling with self-harm, depression and associated mental health experiences.But as the title suggests Self-harm to Self-harmony offers hope to those whom are struggling by illustrating my own experiences of overcoming such struggles. But if you have a child, friend, relative, student, employee, etc. that is struggling with the difficulties that I have endured then you will better equipped in how to support them through their dark time. I share with the reader what I have done to overcome my struggles and how I have improved my life.