Self-esteem and self-confidence are words about how you think and feel about yourself. Self-esteem and self-confidence are about believing that you can succeed and handle things, but also about how you handle failures, and when things didn’t go according to plan. Both are important and connected, but they have slightly different meanings. Down below is a short description of how we interpret self-esteem and self-confidence.

Having an eating disorder can mean that you think a lot about food, your body and/or exercise. It can negatively affect both your physical and mental health. Eating disorders aren’t always visible, and in some cases, it can be hard knowing if you have an eating disorder.

Self harm means that you in some way hurt your body or psyche. For some, it’s about harming their bodies, putting themselves in bad situations, allowing others to harm their bodies or using drugs and alcohol. It’s quite common that people who contact support groups for self harm don’t know what to do with difficult thoughts, and just want to stop some feeling or emotion.

Do you feel as if life is meaningless and that you don’t want to live anymore? Those are serious thoughts, and it is important that you tell someone how you feel. You are not alone in thinking about death and it’s good that you’ve found your way here. Understanding why someone might commit suicide or why you feel like you do might be difficult, and because of that it might make you feel better to talk to someone. Having suicidal thoughts is in and of itself not dangerous. But it is important that you talk to someone, so you can get help.

Stress is a common and completely normal feeling. You can be stressed about, for example, not having tied your shoes yet when the bus is leaving in five minutes. You can be stressed about your final exams getting closer. You can be worried and stressed about the need to talk to your friend about a thing that has been bugging you. In all of the above situations, stress can be a healthy feeling. Your body is reacting to something which it recognises as difficult. The problem with stress is when the stress levels don’t go down, when you can’t relax even if you made it to the bus, passed the exam or made up with your friend.

Minority stress is a form of stress, which has its origin in negative experiences that are connected to belonging to a minority.