Check out the link on the right-side of our Tumblr blog, or on the home page of the FirstSigns website for all 8(+) official Tumblrs! We’ve invited lots of our members to keep a ‘Positive Journal’ – a diary as they tread the road to health and happiness. These are real people, from different countries, of different […]
The weather’s lovely here in the UK right now, and although it’s nice to get out ‘n’ about, it does raise the annual issue of whether to hide or show our self-injury scars. This of course is a personal decision. I, personally, prefer to keep mine hidden unless with people I love and trust. It’s […]
We have kindly been given permission to republish this super article from The Mental Mouth. Please take care when reading. This isn’t a post about government cuts. This is a post about self harm. Bow out now if you think it’s not your thing, and consider yourself warned with all the other appropriate warnings […]
Tumblr is a great mini-blog platform for self-expression, and ‘following’ other interesting people. At FirstSigns, we believe that self-expression is crucial in the journey towards health and happiness. We’d like to invite 5 (or 6) people to start a ‘self-expression on the road to happiness’ Tumblr blog with FirstSigns, and benefit from the support and […]
Jules and I would like to invite one or two of you to manage and run our Tumblr blog. If you’re a tumblr user already, we’d like to hear from you. Please email info@lifesigns.org.uk Duties would include: Using the ‘queue’ to ensure that our Tumblr blog is always busy; Posting links and quotes from our […]
NICE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) is developing a clinical guideline on the longer-term care of adults, children and young people who self-harm. As part of this process, draft recommendations have been published on the NICE website for public consultation. This new guideline will follow on from the NICE guideline on the short-term […]
Edyta is looking into self-injury as part of her research into ‘hope and hopelessness’ for her doctoral level studies at City University London. Edyta is looking for people to interview about their lives and reliance upon self-injury. Naturally, interviews will be treated strictly confidentially and participant’s identities will be protected. If you’d be willing to […]
