Self-Injury Awareness Day is the 1st of March each year, and it’s the last week of February that’s crucial to the success of SIAD, so thanks to all our members and everybody for raising awareness! It’s not too late to get involved, in fact, loads will be happening tomorrow and even Monday no doubt! Why […]
We know it’s hard to go to your doctor, we know it’s hard to talk about self-injury and the distressing things behind it. At LifeSIGNS, we believe that getting help and support is a brave step forward, and something that has benefited many of our members once they’ve found the strength to take that step. […]
Self-Harm? Is that like Self-Injury? People use different terms for self-injury; SI, SH, DSH (Deliberate Self Harm), SIB (Self Injurious Behaviour), Self Mutilation, Cutting; some people even include self-injury when they say ‘parasuicide’. Hospitals and Doctors might use different words, but whatever words we use, are we talking about the same thing? LifeSIGNS feels that […]
Glasgow’s Sunny Govan Radio has also invited LifeSIGNS to speak about SIAD and SI Awareness, so I’ll be on around 11:30am on Friday 29th of Feb. www.sunnygovan.org/ you can listen online from the front page, you just need iTunes or some MP3 playing software. Lincoln’s Siren FM radio have invited LifeSIGNS on to talk about […]
You know that websites are hosted on a server yeah? And you get that, when a surfer clicks on a web page, the page is sent from the server to the person’s browser, and that the ‘sending’ uses up maybe 80 – 200KB of data bandwidth? (Y’know, web pages are computer files, and files have […]
I travelled up to North London early this morning for an ICT in Mental Health Event organised by the ICT Hub. During registration I got chatting to a lady from MIND and she asked me about LifeSIGNS. I was only too happy to answer her questions, and soon found others were listening and asking for […]
Nicki, a student at Birmingham University, would like to invite you to take part in her study on self-injury and support Message Boards. As a member of the LifeSIGNS community, we’d very much like to recommend this questionnaire to you, as Nicki has promised to share the results with us, and so we’ll be showing […]
If you buy gay-interest magazines, surf gay news sites, or are part of any of the gay community websites then you’ve probably heard everything you want to hear about ‘gay rights’, ‘queer politics’ and the ‘pink pound’. Truth is, you may well be sick of being spoken down to by the older queer leaders of […]
Self-Injury Awareness day is only two weeks away, so if you want to get involved then why not have a look at the SIAD page on the LifeSIGNS website. We have everything you need to make this SIAD a success, including template letters for you to send to newspapers, radio shows and MP’s. Or why […]
I just noticed, after years of Google giving LifeSIGNS a PageRank score of 4 out of 10, we’ve just gone up to 5!Check for yourself! Only the largest, most popular websites have a PageRank of 9 or 10, for LifeSIGNS to get 5 must mean that some decent, high-quality websites are linking to us – […]
Women’s Own magazine are hoping to do a feature on adult self-injury, in time for SIAD, which is great. We’re always pleased to get LifeSIGNS members involved with raising awareness within the Media, and I hope you’ll consider joining our ‘Media Alert Team’ mailing list so we can email you with any Media Requests and […]
We are ever so proud of this edition of LifeSHINES, it’s got so much in it! Jules has written an important article about bullying; a gentleman has written an insightful and moving story of how he discovered his wife’s SI; Cait has written about telling her Mum about her SI; and we feature poems from […]
