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One girl’s good efforts for SIAD!A few days before self-injury awareness day we received an email from an incredibly enthusiastic woman named Ana who distributed our posters and wristbands: “When I saw there was so much info on your site about Self Harm and being a Self Harmer myself, I felt I had to get […]

Royal College of Nursing to discuss whether “Self-harmers” should be given fresh bladeshttp://www.selfharm.org.uk/index.php?section=new&show=News This story has been discussed quite recently in a number of newspapers and there are some conflicting views on it. In some ways it is quite a controversial move – should nurses who are caring for a patient really be seen to […]

Women on the Edge, BBC2 Monday 27th FebruaryThis programme focused on self-harm in Styal prison – please go to http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4742896.stm for an article by the woman who filmed it for more information. If you saw the programme, please go to http://b2.boards2go.com/boards/board.cgi?user=SIARI2006 and post your comments.

http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/health/story/0,,1710655,00.html This article is from The Guardian on 16th February. It focuses on a case study of a young person who self-injure and recently appeared on a Channel 4 documetary called “The Cutting Club”. An Internet organisation “RecoverYourLife” (RYL) is discussed, and the possible negative consequences that sites such as these can lead to. The […]

Churche’s Mother So Charlotte Church’s mother has been self-harming for 17 years… Church’s Mother and Self Harm

Sense of failure: the scale of young people who self-harm. In The Guardian, relating to a study by The Priory, published today, lots of lovely statistics :) www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/ Although focusing on statistics has been useful to some extent in making the wider world realise that it so incredibly common, I am of the belief that […]

Hello there everyone, I have just gotten home from my first day of training out there in the big wide world at the NUS Mental Health Day in Manchester. I gave our training talk to three groups across the afternoon, all of which were well received, which made it a lot easier for me to […]

Confronting self-harm crisis in A&E departments An honest article about the treatment of self harm in A&E departments and the training that needs to be done with staff to improve services and reduce punitive treatment.

On Treating Depression with Poetry http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1462827,00.html This article refers to the launch of an organisation called Mental Fight Club – the first rule of which is that you can tell everyone about it. It is based on Ben Okri’s epic poem “Mental Fight” – apparently you can read it and be cured :)

Suicide and Deliberate Self-Harm – an article from the British Medical Journal http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/330/7496/891?ehom This article appears in the latest edition of the BMJ and is worth a read as this is what doctors generally will be reading. It links suicide and deliberate self-harm more than I think is fair, however it is written from the […]

Draft Mental Health Bill Criticised Latest update on bill suggests that the proposed mental health reform is doomed. http://society.guardian.co.uk/mentalhealth/story/0,8150,1443679,00.html

Third Interim Report from the National Enquiry into Self Harm was published today. Entitled “Closed Settings, Closed Minds? – Young People Who Self-harm”, it reveals that professionals in residential settings need to better understand self-harm. http://www.selfharmUK.org