We are busy planning for Self Injury Awareness Day on 1st March 2010, and we have loads of great ideas that will help make SIAD 2010 our best ever. One of these is to produce a FirstSigns calendar, and we thought it would be great if some our members could get involved and help us […]
The Guardian, and other newspapers, are reporting that certain hospitals and mental health centres are ‘assisting’ people to self-injure, and going so far as to provide tools to hurt yourself with. Link This is sensationalism. The newspapers are whipping up a storm. We have advised the NHS for many many years that when supporting a […]
What is it with researchers? Why is it that every study that comes out contradicts the previous one? One month coffee is good for the heart, the next it’s bad. One year mono-unsaturates are good for you, but these days we have to avoid ‘trans-fats’ – whatever they are. More people are staying in the […]
Coming out about self-injury to the people closest to us is a difficult decision to make. How the other person reacts is bound to have a serious affect on us, be it positive or negative, and so it’s important to think about that first conversation (if possible) before you have it. Or maybe you aren’t […]
Gift giving is a lovely tradition, and many people enjoy tracking down the perfect gift, the present they know will make their loved one smile. But Christmas can be expensive. How many times have you had to break your budget to be able to get the gifts you want, or enough gifts for everyone? Each […]
