Doctors Appreciate Information

This week I’ve delivered two Talks for LifeSIGNS, one to Medical students, and one today to Doctors.

I talked about Pre-cursors to SI, Coping Mechanisms, Chronic Invalidation (leading to Low Self Esteem) and Self Communication through the medium of self injury.

After each Talk I always take questions about LifeSIGNs and my own experience of self injury, the Doctor’s admitted that self harm was a new subject to them, and they apreciated the information I was able to lead them to.

They asked several questions about what drives a person to hurt themselves, and they asked how best to help a person who self harms who seeks support from them.

LifeSIGNS endeavours to train organisations with an interest in self harm, and more details can be found on our Training Page.