Self-Injury Awareness Day (SIAD) is coming up on 1st March and we’re already receiving lots of enquiries. It’s fantastic to see the increase each year in the number of people taking an interest in SIAD and wishing to raise awareness about self-injury. A lot of people ask us to send them material through the post, […]
Thank you to everyone who took part in our social networks poll. Wedge created this poll to discover which are your favourite social networks, which ones you don’t care much about and which ones you think you’ll be using more over the coming year. The results show that: 65% of you love Facebook, with Twitter […]
We know what it feels like to be desperate to stop the pain, to seek relief by any method. We know what it’s like to struggle with people, with our emotions and our self-injury. We hope our website with its wealth of ideas and information is of some help to others, and we’re always pleased […]
We recently launched our new emergency web page: Read this first. The purpose of this article is to provide immediate support and distraction for people who are overwhelmed by intense feelings of emotional distress and about to hurt themselves. We hope that people will choose to read through the interactive page *before* making the decision […]
How much of the past are you carrying around with you? All that baggage can get very heavy can’t it? It weighs you down. But what purpose does it serve? I suggest, none. Of course our present selves are a cumulation of past experiences. Bad things happen to good people. And sometimes we do things […]
Earlier this week we launched our shiny new Support Forum. Our tired old message board had been closed for month while we talked about how we can best support our members in a fast and modern manner. The way people interact on the Internet has changed over the years, and we wanted to ensure our […]
Our refreshed new Support Forum is now open and ready to support you. We closed down our old message board a month ago to give us time to reassess the needs of our members and how we might best provide community support and guidance for people in emotional distress and struggling with self-injury. Our new […]
Our Message Board has closed; it’s gone for good! The Support Forum that we’ll launch next month is going to be quite different. But change, in this case, is good and necessary, and we’re sure our members will appreciate the direction we’ve chosen to take. FirstSigns has been running a Message Board for 8 years, […]
Wristbands will be on sale on Monday 17th August 2016.
Today we are celebrating our 9th Birthday! Oh yes, it’s been 9 years since Wedge formed our organisation, then known as LifeSIGNS. It’s a quiet celebration this year as we’re hoping to celebrate in style next year, but we’re as busy as ever planning our future and continuing to provide all the resources that we […]
Life is a continuous path of choices. Everything we say or don’t say, everything we do or don’t do; they’re all choices. The choices we make accumulate to make us who we are as people, and define the journey our lives will take. Sometimes we don’t have a choice. Sometimes things happen *to* us over […]
The weather’s lovely here in the UK right now, and although it’s nice to get out ‘n’ about, it does raise the annual issue of whether to hide or show our self-injury scars. This of course is a personal decision. I, personally, prefer to keep mine hidden unless with people I love and trust. It’s […]
