It's not just mental health professionals who have to spot self-harm, updated health guidance says.
Elsa Arnold, 20, from east London, was 15 when she started self-harming after being bullied at school.
"You don't believe you deserve help anyway and when you're not given it, you just feel knocked down." Prof Nav Kapur, an adviser on the guidelines and professor of psychiatry and population health at the University of Manchester, said: "Self-harm can occur at any age and present to any setting. It calls for anyone who is not a mental health specialist and spots a case of self-harm, to organise a psychosocial assessment as soon as possible, which should be carried out by a mental health professional.
"Data in the past few years has shown that people working within these sectors would benefit from clear guidance about how they should help someone who is self-harming.
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