In the last few weeks we’ve certainly given people loads to talk about, and you’ve been kind enough to share your thoughts with us by email, Facebook and our Message Board, and yes, we notice that not everyone is happy with what’s been going on, but what we also notice over everything is the huge […]
Volunteering England has featured LifeSIGNS within its Volunteering Magazine! Here’s how the interview went. Q Please could you tell us how LifeSIGNS started?A I ‘Came Out’ about my self-injury and started seeking help when I was at University; I started writing my personal thoughts on my own website and then I realised I had to […]
Just a little blog to note that other orgs are also talking about self-injury in adults. Why Services Are Failing The Adults Who Selfharm
In case you’re wondering, even though Self-Injury Awareness Day was on a Saturday (weekends are quiet you see) the LifeSIGNS website still manage to pull in six times as many visitors for the day! Six times as many! I’m just thankful that our little server didn’t fall over under the weight of demand!
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 […]
