Internet message-boards for self-injury
I was getting increasingly annoyed with articles about self-injury message board encouraging self-injury, so wrote the following article for an online news site (999 today):
http://www.999today.com/technology/news/story/3147.html
Not only does it show that not all self-injury message boards encourage self-injury, but it was also a chance to promote LifeSIGNS!
2 Comments
Michelle
May 21, 2006Mary I read the article you wrote and made a comment after.I hope they publish it.There are way to many PRO sites of all kinds on the web so we all have to be carefull where we look for support.
I’m glad that lifeSIGNS has been mentioned on yet another site that many people will visit!
sarah
May 8, 2006Thank you Mary, your article makes some really nice points and highlights the role that LifeSIGNS can play in providing safe services for people who self-harm.
I have felt for a while that we need to speak out more when some part of the media moans about suicide/self-harm websites, because it becomes so hard to fight against people’s prejudices when they heard something on the news. And people have a tendency to really believe the bad stuff before they’ll take on the good stuff.