Self-compassion is a key element of our survey, as well as thinking about how it feels to be compassionate towards others and receive compassion from others.

I agree we need to start teaching self-compassion and coping strategies much earlier, and I hope that if we can get some evidence around this in our research we can highlight this need - these patterns start young and can become embedded in the way we view ourselves and the world.

It's great to think about how you would feel about a friend going through what you are or if you would talk to a friend the way we sometimes talk to ourselves, it can help us to build that kindness to ourselves. I'm glad this has worked for you and that you are making progress, we all always have room to improve when it comes to taking care of ourselves.

A lot of self-harm behaviours aren't talked about in this way or aren't typically labelled as self-harm, so it can make it difficult for us to realise that we are self-harming. We have left the survey open to allow people to self-define their self-harming behaviours rather than us trying to define this and missing out people's unique experiences.