This is a reminder that you’re all invited to our real life summer meet-up this month in Birmingham, UK. We’ll be meeting from 12pm until 3pm on Saturday 20th July at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, which is in the city centre.
Send us your stories about recovery and we’ll see if Bruice will publish them in his new book.
Thank you to everyone who took part in our social networks poll. Wedge created this poll to discover which are your favourite social networks, which ones you don’t care much about and which ones you think you’ll be using more over the coming year. The results show that: 65% of you love Facebook, with Twitter […]
We know what it feels like to be desperate to stop the pain, to seek relief by any method. We know what it’s like to struggle with people, with our emotions and our self-injury. We hope our website with its wealth of ideas and information is of some help to others, and we’re always pleased […]
We recently launched our new emergency web page: Read this first. The purpose of this article is to provide immediate support and distraction for people who are overwhelmed by intense feelings of emotional distress and about to hurt themselves. We hope that people will choose to read through the interactive page *before* making the decision […]
Earlier this week we launched our shiny new Support Forum. Our tired old message board had been closed for month while we talked about how we can best support our members in a fast and modern manner. The way people interact on the Internet has changed over the years, and we wanted to ensure our […]
Our refreshed new Support Forum is now open and ready to support you. We closed down our old message board a month ago to give us time to reassess the needs of our members and how we might best provide community support and guidance for people in emotional distress and struggling with self-injury. Our new […]
The Internet, and the way people use it, has changed so much since we launched FirstSigns (aka LifeSIGNS) back in 2002. We’ve grown our online services and developed several social network presences, and it’s time to look at how our Message Board is used. Our Message Board was incredibly popular some years back, and was […]
Most organisations don’t release their web stats or member numbers. We think that the continual growth of numbers speaks for itself, and demonstrates why self-injury is a topic that must be discussed and out in the open. Oh, just a note about our Message Board members – the number hovers around 400, because that seems […]
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