Living with depression
One of our Directors, Jules, talks about her experiences with depression, and explores the connection she’s identified between her depression and self-injury.
One of our Directors, Jules, talks about her experiences with depression, and explores the connection she’s identified between her depression and self-injury.
LifeSIGNS is an organisation that focuses on awareness and education about self-injury and helps those both who struggle with this, their parents/ caregivers and also professionals. We also have an online community support forum that is passionate about supporting and encouraging those who are struggling with self-injury…
There’s been a lot of activity at LifeSIGNS over the last few months as you’ll know, and one of the great projects we’ve recently been able to see through is to launch our very own YouTube channel, which is managed by Emmie. The first two videos to go live are included in this blog article!
I’m Laura, and in March I joined the LifeSIGNS team as Blog Manager. My story with self-injury started ten years ago in a fairly ‘unusual’ way – I broke down in public. In this blog article I chose to introduce myself to you through sharing my story with SI.
We are incredibly lucky to have so many supporters who are kind enough to donate money to us, and so we have decided that during the month of May we will thank each person who donates £5 or more by sending them one of our shiny new magnets.
Wedge, LifeSIGNS’ Founding Director, looks at the idea of humans being resilient, as opposed to ‘strong’.
We recently received an email from Trisha, who works with people in her community. During the course of her work, she carried out a photo shoot and felt that LifeSIGNS may be interested in hearing about ‘Kitten’, a model with personal experience of self-injury, who chose to use her modeling opportunity to raise awareness and support for SI.
This article, submitted by experienced contributor Charis, looks at the implications that ‘no harm contracts’ – agreements to not self-injure – can have on those who use self-injury as a coping mechanism.
Life is hard. The difference between people is in how they each cope with what life throws their way, and for some people, self-injury has become their release – or in some cases, distraction – from the overwhelming pressure of it all. In this article, Jennifer kindly shares her story with LifeSIGNS.
In this article, contributed by Adam, the occurrence of SI and emotional distress among men is explored.
As we begin the last week of March, one of LifeSIGNS’ Directors Rachel offers some useful guidance on Coming Out as part of ‘Tell Someone Month’.
In this guest article, Charis considers one of the common myths around self-injury: whether SI can be considered ‘copy-cat’ behaviour.
