LifeSIGNS
FirstSigns (Self-Injury Guidance & Network Support) is an online, user-lead voluntary organisation, founded in 2002 to raise awareness about self-injury and provide information and support to people of all ages affected by self-injury. We recognise self-injury is a way of coping with distressing experiences and difficult emotions, and we encourage people to reflect on the issues behind their self-injury, and to develop and explore alternative coping mechanisms. FirstSigns is managed and lead by people with personal experience of self-injury, and we are non-judgemental, non-directional, and respectful of our members' and visitors' life experiences and perceptions. The FirstSigns website is the centre of our vibrant community, and provides access to all of our services, including our newsletter, book and training -
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As the UK freezes we hope you’re keeping warm and taking care of yourself.
It’s the busiest time of year for us, with SIAD (Self-Injury Awareness Day) coming up on 1st March. And we have lots of exciting things planned for the coming months as we celebrate our 10th birthday.
Right now, our new awareness wristbands and key rings are available, and we hope that as many of you as possible will support us by buying one. It costs a great deal to run an organisation, not only in terms of time (we’re all volunteers with busy lives to cope with) but also financially. We’re completely unfunded, and so we rely on the sale of wristbands to help keep us running.
We’re excited to have changed our name back to LifeSIGNS, and our new wristbands reflect this. So even if you’ve got a wristband from past years, we hope you’ll buy a new one and help us for the months ahead.
This month we’ll update our SIAD page, which gives lots of ideas and resources to help you raise awareness about self-injury. And all our handy Fact Sheets are available for free download from our Publications page.
So please do take a look and let us know what you’re doing for SIAD. If you’re running an event we can let you have bulk orders of wristbands at a reduced cost – please just email Jules with details.
As we said, this is an exciting year for LifeSIGNS, so please follow us on Twitter or keep an eye on our blog for all the latest news.
Everything we do, we do for you, our members. So we thank you for your continued support.
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, and we travelled to Somerset where Alison took us on to a large school in Wells. We received a warm welcome and Wedge spoke for 90 minutes to teachers and Year 12 students about self-injury. It’s always fantastic when a school is open and forward thinking enough to enable a talk on this difficult subject, and it’s great to be able to hand out our Fact Sheets and Guidance for School Self-injury Policy in real life.
In the evening we were taken out for a meal, where we enjoyed the lovely company of Alison and Flora, and were able to explore some subjects surrounding self-injury in a light and relaxing manner.
We were collected from our hotel early the next morning for the long drive to Buckfast in Devon, where we helped Alison facilitate a conference / networking event for a group of counsellors. Wedge spoke in the morning, and then after a lovely lunch and browse of the Abbey shops, we regrouped for a more informal talk as Wedge and I went through some of LifeSIGNS’ ideas for moving away from self-injury. The delegates then split into groups to discuss various scenarious and experiences, with Wedge and I floating between the groups to join in conversations and share ideas.
The final part of the day enabled everyone to pool their thoughts and share everything that had been learnt.
The whole event was a great success and the feedback we received was lovely; with everyone commenting on how much they had got out of the day. And that goes for us too; we learnt a lot from the experiences of these fine professonals, and we came away with some great ideas that we’ll be sharing with you over the coming weeks and months.
On a personal, I had a fantastic time. I love meeting people and talking about self-injury with people who work with self-injury in real life. And I never tire of hearing Wedge speak. Although I’m sure he gets a little embarrassed by all the praise he receives, it makes me very proud both of Wedge and of LifeSIGNS.
Many many thanks to Alison for again giving us this opportunity to talk about self-injury in real life, and for taking care of us so well. We had a super couple of days and look forward to working with Alison again in the future.
On another quick note, our shiny new wristbands and key rings are now available, so please do grab one now in time for SIAD (Self-Injury Awareness Day) on 1st March :)
We are in the process of changing our name to LifeSIGNS and so our web address will match to become www.lifesigns.org.uk – you can try it now.
LifeSIGNS is the name I chose for our voluntary organisation back in 2002, and now that we approach our tenth birthday, it’s a great time to revert to our original name.
LifeSIGNS suits us really well, as while we are a self-injury awareness organisation, we have a positive outlook and believe everyone can make choices for a healthier and happier life. LifeSIGNS is also made up of the acronym ‘SIGNS‘ which stands for ‘Self-Injury Guidance & Network Support‘ which is what we offer. We don’t advise people, we offer guidance and a network of people offering support via our website and online services.
Lots has changed in the ten years since we started talking about self-injury and self-harm in the UK; larger organisations have touched on SI, local groups are available and new websites have popped up. There’s a wealth of information available online now, which wasn’t the case for the UK in the early years of this century. We believe it’s important for people to hear from professionals who know something about the recovery path, but we absolutely believe it’s crucial to give people with direct experience of SI a voice, and our website is completely written and produced by people with such experience.
We welcome contributions from people who feel trapped within SI, who are fighting the Urge and who are recovering and moving away from self-injurious behaviours. We don’t pretend to speak on behalf of anyone, but we hope that people living with self-harm can recognise themselves in our website, and can make use of the guidance and ideas we provide.
LifeSIGNS couldn’t exist without you – we are unfunded and run by volunteers – we do everything we do for you, because we know self-injury from the inside.
Ways we can help you
- Consider what self-injury and self-harm are
- Learn new ways of looking at your distress
- Try new ideas for reducing your self-injury
- Help parents, teachers and friends understand
- Get online support from our support forum community
- In SI emergencies, Read This First Before You Hurt
Ways you can help us
Self-Injury Awareness Day (SIAD) is coming up on 1st March and we’re already receiving lots of enquiries.
It’s fantastic to see the increase each year in the number of people taking an interest in SIAD and wishing to raise awareness about self-injury.
A lot of people ask us to send them material through the post, but as we’re an unfunded voluntary organisation with a tiny budget, we simply don’t have the resources to do this. But we do have lots of useful information for you to download for free from our website, and you’re welcome to photocopy and distribute these as you wish.
On our publications page you’ll find all our Fact Sheets, covering parents, friends, healthcare workers, teachers, males and employers.
There’s also a guidance document for creating a school self-injury policy.
In addition, on our SIAD page you can find lots of information about SIAD and the kind of things you can do to help raise awareness.
We’ll also be selling self-injury awareness wristbands and key rings during February and beyond.
It’s a busy time of year for us (and we’re all volunteers!) but we’ll be updating the above pages over the coming weeks. So please do subscribe to our RSS Newsfeed or keep an eye on our website home page, Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook for full details.
Thank you to everyone who is interested in raising awareness about self-injury – please do let us know of your plans for 1st March.
Whatever the holiday season has meant to you, we wish you the very best in 2012. January brings a fantastic opportunity to review your life goals and consider new ways to seek health and happiness.
It is a shiny, bright new year. May you have the determination to become who you want to be during 2012. We wish you all the very best for everything you set out to achieve and experience.
We know life can be hard, can be awful. Take pleasure in the small things. Love yourself. Love others. And take time every day to seek out the peace and beauty of the world in which you live.
The new year will bring some wonderful developments for us, and we hope we can serve you better than ever in 2012. We will change our name back to ‘LifeSIGNS’ and provide brand new wristbands in February in time for Self-Injury Awareness Day (SIAD) in March, and we’ll publish our book – to help answer all those ‘difficult’ questions about self-injury.
Find us on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook (Page & Group) for more details and updates.
All the best, from all of us at FirstSigns / LifeSIGNS
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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 and then Tumblr coming second and third.
- The vast majority of people say they can live without Bebo and MySpace.
- Most people think that Twitter and Tumblr are working hard to be awesome and will be ‘great’ in 2012.
This is great for us to know. It’s important to us that we make it easy for you to interact with us – that we’re where you’d like us to be - and the results show that we’re getting it right :)
Thanks again for your help and we look forward to seeing you on Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr during 2012.
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 to hear from people who are working to move away from self-injury. ‘MarisStella’ was kind enough to send us this message to share with you:
“I just wanted to say a huge thank you for the section called ‘Read This First Before You Hurt‘. I’ve been in a terrible state lately, and I really thought I would do some serious damage to myself tonight.
“I clicked on the ‘Read This First’ button, and cried all the way through reading it, because it really was written as though there was someone right here with me, telling me they were proud of me for continuing to read the words rather than hurt myself.
“I want to say thank you. You kept me from seriously harming myself tonight, and even though you probably get a lot of messages from people saying that nothing will be able to help them, I wanted to tell you that I think you saved a life tonight.
“I know I have a long journey ahead of me, but tonight’s journey was made easier because of you.”
from MarisStella
We hope the sentiment in MarisStella’s note might encourage you to try our ‘Read This First Before You Hurt‘ page if you ever find yourself overwhelmed by the urge to self-harm. Or you might have a friend who could benefit from a little extra support.
We’ve been really touched by MarisStella’s journey, and we believe in determination to seek health and happiness and move away from self-harm at her own pace. We know we can’t magickally wave self-injury away, but we do mean to support you on your personal journey.
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 to self-injure. As always, we don’t tell people what to do and we certainly don’t judge. Instead we have aimed to offer virtual support, insight and empathy that may help a person during times of acute distress.
We have written this article for anyone who relies on self-injury in order to cope, and we hope that whoever you are, and whatever your background or circumstances, that you’ll be able to relate to our article and find some hope, comfort and distraction in our words.
We know from our own personal experience of self-injury that when triggered the most important thing we can give ourselves before choosing to self-injure is time. ‘Read this first‘ aims to enable a person to give themselves that time and distance between their initial need to self-injure, and their decision to do so.
So if you work with people who self-injure, or have a loved one who hurts themselves, please share our page with them. And if you rely on self-injury yourself, please give yourself a little time to read through our article before you hurt yourself.
Is your family coming to terms with self-injury? Would you be willing to share your story in That’s Life magazine?
Christina is writing an article about self-injury, and would ideally like to talk to a mother who found out her child was self-injurying. Christina would be especially interested in talking with sons or daughters who had been hurting themselves since primary school, but is open to hearing different stories from people who have self-harmed from a young age.
If you are interested in talking to Christina, and appearing in That’s Life magazine, and you’re in the UK, talk the idea over with your family and then email wedge@firstsigns.org.uk with the subject line of ‘Christina That’s Life’ and I will pass your details on.
Please only include your names (mother and child), your ages and your general location (town or city).
Christina means to write a sensitive feature article, and you can be in control of how your story is presented, as Christina intends to work closely with you to make sure you’re happy about the article. There is an opportunity to earn a considerable fee if your story is published, and if you’re willing to have photographs published you would earn more money, but it’s your choice, you don’t have to share more than you want.
Talking about your family in a national magazine is a big step, so you should talk it over with your whole family before deciding. You should decide if you’re happy to have your surname published and if you’re happy to share family photos, it’s all up to you.
If you’re interested in emailing Christina to ask any questions (you can pull out at any time) please email me on wedge@firstsigns.org.uk and I will pass your details on directly.
How much of the past are you carrying around with you? All that baggage can get very heavy can’t it? It weighs you down. But what purpose does it serve? I suggest, none.
Of course our present selves are a cumulation of past experiences. Bad things happen to good people. And sometimes we do things that we regret and feel guilt or shame over. But apart from learning from our mistakes, and hopefully gaining strength from difficult or traumatic events, is there really a need for them to negatively affect our present and future? These things only have power over us if we allow them to.
There are few things I can’t forgive a loved one for. And yet I’ve struggled to forgive myself for a great deal. Why? I honestly don’t know. Perhaps it’s because we love others more than we love ourselves.
But perhaps the truth is a more difficult concept to consider. Could it be that it’s because there’s a certain amount of comfort in carrying these things around? You know, like something that’s broken or damaged that you can’t throw away. You cling on to it, even thought it’s serving no purpose and taking up space that you could use for something shiny and new. You don’t really know *why* you’re keeping it, but it feels safe to do so.
It’s really scary letting go of the past and forgiving yourself for mistakes you’ve made. It means you no longer have anything to cling to as an excuse for *present* mistakes and behaviours. It means you can no longer blame something that happened a decade ago for your behaviour today.
But it’s also incredibly liberating. Choosing to live in the present opens up space in your life, and in your head, for new ideas and thought processes and filters. It makes you *lighter*. It gives you more *space*.
You can’t change the past, but you can prevent it affecting your present and future. Where do you want to be in five years’ time, in ten years’ time? Will you still be carrying around all the baggage you have with you today, plus several more years worth? Or will you choose to free yourself of the past now, and only carry around a small handbag of the happiest memories?
Sometimes huge things happen that it’s difficult to let go of by ourselves. Sometimes we need a little, or a lot, of support and help in moving on. Sometime friends and family can help with that, and sometimes more professional help is needed. But ultimately it’s the choices *you* make that will determine how much of your past you will carry into your future.
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We’re really enjoying being part of the wider Tumblr community. We’ve been a big user of Twitter for some time, and we couldn’t be sure how we’d be received on Tumblr, or what we could best use the service for, but you’ve shown us that there’s real value here, that we can raise awareness about the difficult subject of self-injury.
Thank you.
Wedge
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As some of you will have seen and read, we were maliciously attacked by hackers a couple of days ago. Over the last 48 hours Wedge has worked tirelessly to find the source of the attack and mend everything.
Our web site and main blog were seriously damaged by the hackers, and therefore our hosting providers shut everything down while they helped us clear things up. This has meant a sporadic service, with our web estate being unavailable for periods of time.
Google picked up on the problem too, and some of you may have experienced warning messages over our site or our main blog. Although our Tumblr has been unaffected, those of you with LifeSIGNS Tumblr accounts may also have seen warnings, but please be assured that no Tumblr accounts have actually been affected by the attack.
Wedge has been working closely with our hosting providers; the source of the attack has been established, and between them they’ve been able to get everything back up and running. It appears that Google have recognised this, are happy we’re safe, and have removed their warnings.
I don’t really know what else to say, except that this has been a horrible time. I personally don’t have much technical knowledge surrounding these things, and I’ve been unable to help Wedge in any practical way.
It’s been just awful to see our beautiful website under attack, and the timing couldn’t have been much worse as we’ve all been working so hard preparing for SIAD and selling our wristbands etc. Wedge hasn’t stopped battling with this for two days solid now, and I’ve just had to sit back and watch and wait and hope.
Anyway, I’m tentatively saying that everything should be OK now. There might still be some glitches while things get back to normal, but we’ll keep you informed along the way.
We’re very sorry for any inconvenience this attack has caused you and we’re grateful for your continued support.
Jules
“The first time I hurt myself, I was 26. I was a hairdresser at the time. I remember, I was in my bedroom at my parents’ house, very distressed and crying.”
Download this and six other fact sheets about self-injury - free to share, free to print.
We totally want today to be a bit better than yesterday.
Why yes, we do ship our self-injury wristbands around the world, so you’re welcome to get one even if you’re in Australia or New Zealand :)
Don’t wait until you’ve reached a goal to be proud of yourself. Be proud for every step you make in the right direction.
Good news; after working and monitoring all day, we feel that our LifeSIGNS web estate is now fine. We’re still quarantining our main blog, but our main website is up and running and our wristbands are once again available.
Obviously we feel very deeply about the sporadic, random attack from malicious hackers that compromised our blog, but we’re relieved that everything now seems OK.
We’ll still be monitoring our main blog very carefully, but we’re really pleased to have our Tumblr blog and our Twitter feed so that we can keep in touch with all our lovely members.
We’re very sorry for any inconvenience the hackers have caused for you today. It’s been upsetting for us and we’ve worked extremely hard to combat the problem. There are ongoing measures that we’re taking and we’re using lots of tools to monitor our website. Thankfully Google provides some fantastic tools for such occurrences!
To reiterate, we’re still being careful with our main blog, but our Tumblr and Twitter, and of course our beautiful main website with all its helpful information and wristbands, should now be fine.
Many thanks for your patience and support today. If you do have any concerns, please do send us a message or tweet us @LifeSIGNS.
You can visit www.lifesigns.org.uk now, and get your SI Awareness wristbands and key rings :)
Please Tweet us if the website it down or there’s any hint of a problem @LifeSIGNS
‘Coming out’ about self-injury to the people closest to us is a difficult decision to make. How the other person reacts is bound to have a serious affect on us, be it positive or negative, and so it’s important to think about that first conversation (if possible) before you have it.
Or maybe you aren’t ready to talk yet, but need to get your feelings out somehow. One way of achieving both these things is by writing a letter to the person you want to tell. You never have to send the letter, it’s for your eyes only, but it will provide a route for your emotions and help to clear things up in your head for if you decide to have ‘the’ conversation for real.
Read more, and find some of our member’s letters here:
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LifeSIGNS Vol Org :: A personal account of self-injury
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When I was going through school, I never knew anyone who self-injured. Of course, there must have been some boys and girls who did, but I never heard about it.
If in need of some reflective reading material, check out our suggested books relating to self-injury: http://www.lifesigns.org.uk/help/books
LifeSIGNS Vol Org :: SI Books
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In recent years there has been a surge in the number of books published about self-injury/self-harm. All of these are suitable for different types of people, but most will have a certain appeal to people who self-injure.
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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.
Oooh our new SI Awareness wristbands and key rings are available now: http://d.pr/QjRX
LifeSIGNS Vol Org :: Self Injury Self Harm Wristbands and Key rings
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Our freshly designed wristbands and key rings are half orange and half purple so that we've all got something new to wear. Our wristbands and key rings are just a little bit different, and we hope you'll love them as much as we do.
'Read this first' is our emergency page for people in immediate distress and about to self-injure: http://ow.ly/8GYYF
If you are struggling to control your urges right now, or any time for that matter, why not see if this can help first?
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If you're reading this then I imagine you might be feeling so overwhelmed and distressed that you think hurting yourself is the only way to make it stop. I don't know what things are going on in your life to lead you to feeling so desperate, but I do know what it feels like when the urge to self-inj...
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LifeSIGNS (Self-Injury Guidance & Network Support) is an online, user-led voluntary organisation, founded in 2002 to raise awareness about self-injury and provide information and support to people of all ages affected by self-injury.
'Self-harm' is an umbrella term for self damaging behaviours, including self-injury http://ow.ly/8FHES
FirstSigns VO :: What Self Injury Is
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Self-injury is a coping mechanism. An individual harms their physical self to deal with emotional pain, or to break feelings of numbness by arousing sensation.
Do you know someone who hurts themselves? Our 'Guidance for others' page might help you http://www.lifesigns.org.uk/others/ #selfinjury
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Are you at a loss as to how to try and do the right thing by them. Is it ok to talk about it, or should you stay quiet? Is it ok to ask to see cuts, burns or scars?
Check these 6 photos of our brand new swirly wristbands and key rings: http://tumblr.lifesigns.org.uk/post/15880546571/
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Our new wristband and key rings will be available online in a few days. You will be able to see them on the home page of www.lifesigns.org.uk Click a pic to view it bigger.
We're looking forward to taking delivery of our funky new wristbands and keyrings! :)
Happy New Year to you all!! What are you looking forward to in the coming year?
We have had a number of new members join us recently on our Support Forum - if you are struggling right now and could use some extra support maybe you could check it out?
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Our community is diverse, and includes men and women of all ages and backgrounds. We offer support and guidance for people who are currently struggling with self-injury, people who are in recovery, and for the friends and family of people who are hurting themselves.
Best wishes for the new, fresh year
Whatever the holiday season has meant to you, we wish you the very best in 2012. January brings a fantastic opportunity to review your life goals and consider new ways to seek health and happiness. It is a shiny, bright new year....
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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.
How have the holidays been for you so far? Have you managed to take time to care for yourself?
The 15 minute rule can be useful when you are struggling. Why not give it a go?
FirstSigns VO :: 15 Minute Rule
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When the urge to self injure comes upon you, check the time, and tell yourself that you have felt the urge, but you are going to choose to hold off on any self harming behaviour for 15 minutes; if after this period of 15 minutes, you still feel like self injuring, th...
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“I have always suspected that self-injury affects males as much as females,” says Wedge, “and I've always been suspicious of the media when it portrays self-injury as only a teenage girl thing. I know from my experience that it is not. I started hurting myself before I was a teen, and I hurt myself ...
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Say 'no' to negative thoughts I think. A lot. We all do; in fact it takes many years of dedicated practice to be able to clear one’s mind of *all* thought. Most of us can’t do this on a daily basis,...
New SI related article: "You kept me from seriously harming myself tonight" - http://blog.firstsigns.org.uk/FW
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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.
If you are struggling at the moment and need some support why not try our Support Forum?
http://www.firstsigns.org.uk/board/
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Our community is diverse, and includes men and women of all ages and backgrounds. We offer support and guidance for people who are currently struggling with self-injury, people who are in recovery, and for the friends and family of people who are hurting themselves.
Stan Collymore talking about his personal experiences of depression: http://ow.ly/7GcRJ
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have you ever noticed how many things require your attention?
We really do know what it feels like to want to self-injure *right now*. Our 'Read this First' page might help you: http://d.pr/N4Oo
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If you're reading this then I imagine you might be feeling so overwhelmed and distressed that you think hurting yourself is the only way to make it stop. I don't know what things are going on in your life to lead you to feeling so desperate, but I do know what it feels like when the urge to self-inj...
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@i_am_linz Thank you Lindsay.
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‘Coming out’ about self-injury to the people closest to us is a difficult decision to make. How the other... http://t.co/YgFsDbjW
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Our website, having become popular in the run up to Self-Injury Awareness Day, as been attacked by Russian hackers. We are working to fix.
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Read our blog - know that you are not alone: http://t.co/FaVP04g7
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New article: Self-Injury Awareness Day (SIAD) wristbands and key rings and our name... - http://t.co/kvQ17ypd
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Our SI Awareness wristbands are different every year: http://t.co/mUPIqszp
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Read This First Before You Hurt: http://t.co/ctWsyCjk or pass it on to a friend.
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@tiny_bit_crazy That's fantastic, thanks ever so for your support :)
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Thank you to our supporters: http://t.co/ohOcgarM
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Our blog post on SIAD material - “Self-Injury Awareness Day (SIAD) is coming up on 1st March and we’re... http://t.co/L4AhyveD
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Our name change, and our new wristbands: http://t.co/pNucrYE0 Please help before the end of February.
