Helping you with self-harm
Self-help and self-care can replace self-injury. Especially if we get a little extra support at tough times.
Self-help and self-care can replace self-injury. Especially if we get a little extra support at tough times.
We hope you like our new motto for 2014, which is also the wording on this year’s wristbands. These few simple words are the key to making positive changes, and can relate to any area of our life that needs improving, changing, or renewing. Our daily life is governed by our actions, our behaviours, our […]
Aurelia, writing from The Netherlands, talks about how she started to hurt herself, and the progress she’s made and how she now helps others.
Self-injury is a highly misunderstood ‘problem’; there are so many pre-conceived ideas and myths. At LifeSIGNS, as all of us have experience with SIy, we know what many of the myths and false assumptions are, and we want to make it clear that they are just that: myths.
Sarah got in touch with LifeSIGNS a few months ago with a link to a video to share her experiences with self-injury.
Our Community Manager, Lauren, shares her own self-injury and ‘coming out’ story and how she feels about the road to recovery.
I’m Laura, and in March I joined the LifeSIGNS team as Blog Manager. My story with self-injury started ten years ago in a fairly ‘unusual’ way – I broke down in public. In this blog article I chose to introduce myself to you through sharing my story with SI.
We recently received an email from Trisha, who works with people in her community. During the course of her work, she carried out a photo shoot and felt that LifeSIGNS may be interested in hearing about ‘Kitten’, a model with personal experience of self-injury, who chose to use her modeling opportunity to raise awareness and support for SI.
This article, submitted by experienced contributor Charis, looks at the implications that ‘no harm contracts’ – agreements to not self-injure – can have on those who use self-injury as a coping mechanism.
In this article, contributed by Adam, the occurrence of SI and emotional distress among men is explored.
March is ‘Tell Someone ‘Month’ and we want to support you as you seek real-life help and spport.
Some people worry that they don’t hurt themselves ‘enough’ to deserve help.
