About Alex Lackey

Alex Lackey

Alex Lackey is the Young Adult Coordinator at StarkMHAR, and a member of the class of 2022 at the College of Wooster. They have a passion for youth mental health, believing in the value of awareness and empowerment through community action. They are a young person with lived experience in the mental health system. Aside from this, Alex enjoys playing video games, reading, music (both listening to and playing), and exploring their creative side. Along with their partner, Griffin, they have a cat, a dog, fish, and two chinchillas, so there is never an absence of a furry (or finned) friend to spend time with!

March 1st is Self Injury Awareness Day

February 28, 2022 10:23 am Published by Alex Lackey Comments Off

The UK organization LifeSIGNS started dedicating March 1st as Self Injury Awareness Day in 2002. Now, 20 years later, it is a national awareness day for many countries, including the U.S. Self-injury goes by other names, including self-harm and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), and encompasses a large range of actions that one takes to cope with extreme emotion, release tension from these emotions, or take back a perceived loss of control. While teens tend to be the most likely to self-injure,