Psiquiatra Dr. Samuel Hernández

03/10/2025

13/06/2025

The Self-Harm Cycle: Why It Can Feel 'Relieving'

When a young person self-harms, it’s not about attention or manipulation. It’s often about release. Here’s why ⬇️

🧠 When we’re overwhelmed by emotional pain, the body activates its stress response. This can feel unbearable — like the emotion is too big to hold.

⚡ Self-harm can trigger the release of endorphins — the body’s natural painkillers. These chemicals can dull emotional and physical pain temporarily and create a sense of calm or numbness.

But here’s the trap ⛓️

➡️ The relief doesn’t last.
➡️ Feelings of shame, guilt or secrecy follow.
➡️ Emotional pain builds again… and the cycle repeats.

Self-harm isn’t about wanting to die. It’s about trying to cope with pain that feels impossible to sit with.

Breaking the cycle starts with safety, understanding, and compassionate support. See the comments for link to our Chasing Endorphins, Self-Harm Toolkit. Which includes this resource.

Children and young people need:

Safer ways to regulate emotions
A toolkit that meets sensory and emotional needs
A trusted adult who sees behind the behaviour

Let’s change the narrative from shame to support.

09/06/2025

Recordatorio para tu salud emocional 💞

INN México

09/06/2025

🚨 ¿Alguna vez has escuchado algún mito sobre el Trastorno Límite de la Personalidad (TLP)? 🤔

Es hora de desmentir la desinformación y entender la realidad. En nuestro nuevo post, abordamos los mitos y las realidades más comunes del TLP.

¡Porque comprender es el primer paso para apoyar y sanar! 🧠💚

💬 ¿Qué otro mito del TLP te gustaría que desmintamos? ¡Déjanos tu comentario y comparte para que más personas conozcan la verdad!

Referencias: American Psychiatric Association. Manual diagnóstico y estadístico de los trastornos mentales (DSM-5-TR). 5ª ed. Madrid: Editorial Médica Panamericana, 2023.

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04/06/2025

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have found a link between use of social media by pre-teens and future depression. The study, published this week in the American Medical Association’s journal JAMA, said more time spent on social media “may contribute to increased depres...

28/05/2025

25/05/2025

Teaching healthy relationship skills to middle school students can help prevent adolescent relationship abuse and lead to better mental health outcomes—including reduced depression—years later, according to researchers at UTHealth Houston. The study was published today in the Journal of Adolesce...

23/05/2025

22/05/2025

22/05/2025

En menos de una década, los jóvenes tendrán una pérdida en años de vida saludable debido al aumento de los trastornos mentales, tendencia que va en aumento desde la pandemia por Covid- 19.

22/04/2025

Prolonged grief disorder is a mental health disorder recently included in diagnostic manuals around the world.

A new Review sets out evidence in strong support for the current conceptualisation of prolonged grief disorder—a diagnosable mental health condition with symptoms such as intense longing and preoccupation, along with emotional pain, identity issues, loss of meaning, and impaired daily functioning.

Find out more ➡️ https://hubs.li/Q03jfd5T0

👇 Figure: Diagnostic criteria for prolonged grief disorder.

20/04/2025