Living with depression
One of our Directors, Jules, talks about her experiences with depression, and explores the connection she’s identified between her depression and self-injury.
One of our Directors, Jules, talks about her experiences with depression, and explores the connection she’s identified between her depression and self-injury.
We are incredibly lucky to have so many supporters who are kind enough to donate money to us, and so we have decided that during the month of May we will thank each person who donates £5 or more by sending them one of our shiny new magnets.
We are recruiting; I’m a volunteer like everyone else at LifeSIGNS.
The day that we’ve been working towards throughout February has finally arrived. Today is Self-Injury Awareness Day, or SIAD. We are in the West Midlands today for Walsall Safeguarding Children Board’s awareness event, where they will launch their new staff guidelines for supporting children and young people who turn to self-injury. We’ll be there from […]
SIAD, wristbands, key rings, recruitment, support and your words.
Self-Injury Awareness Day is a global event that occurs each year on the 1st March. SIAD has been running for several years now, and LifeSIGNS is proud to lead SIAD in the UK, not only by raising awareness ourselves, but by providing an amazing selection of resources to enable others to raise awareness too. Change […]
The Yuletide can be a stressful time for many people, and a sad time for some. You are not alone.
A number of websites, prohects, resources and organisations are dedicated to serving and supporting young people with concerns around mental health and / or self-injury. ‘Young’ is a relative term of course, but in the UK, organisations often set the age limit at 25 years old. What does that say to ‘young adults’ who become ‘older adults’? What do all these resouces for younger people say to older adults, who may never have had support as a young adult or teenager? How do older people who turn to self-injury for the first time feel, and what are the differen issues they face?
It’s Blog Action Day, and Jules discusses the ‘power of we’ in contrast to when she was alone with her self-injury.
Send us your stories about recovery and we’ll see if Bruice will publish them in his new book.
Wristbands, key rings, SIAD, our tenth birthday and our name change.
A couple of years ago Wedge and I travelled to Wells in Somerset as Wedge had been invited to speak at a conference. The feedback received was so positive that the organiser Alison, a professional counsellor, invited us to return to the West Country to speak some more. Wedge and I were delighted to accept, […]