FirstSigns

Looking forward to 2010, what will you achieve?

Our very first calendar, for your wall. Beautifully put together and printed for you.

‘Web hit stats’ can be misleading, but we’re thrilled to see so may visitors from different countries.

We are frequently asked the question: who self injures?
Despite the media’s frequent portrayal of self-injury being something that predominantly affects teenage girls, at FirstSigns we know this is wholly inaccurate. FirstSigns itself was founded by Wedge – and he’s never going to be a teenage girl!
Self-injury can affect anybody, at any time in their lives. Gender, [...]

PG13 Rated! Criticism, even self-criticism isn’t true and isn’t the whole story. Try this simple Cognitive Behavioural idea next time criticism upsets you.

After several months discussing our plans and ideas for a book for FirstSigns, the actual writing of it has finally arrived! This week Wedge and I will be working together and writing several thousand words a day, so that we can publish the book in time for SIAD 2010.
As with many things it’s the ‘getting [...]

Wedge will be on the radio on Monday, arguing that health-care professionals mustn’t simply forbid a person from hurting themselves, but rather, support the person as they learn to make new choices and find new coping methods.

Self-Injury Awareness Day (SIAD) is the 1st of March, 2010. That means that we’ll sell loads of SI Awareness wristbands and keyrings in February.
Which is great! I mean, it’s just fantastic to think so many people will be wearing our wristbands through March – it makes us proud of our members and supporters, and really [...]

We are busy planning for Self Injury Awareness Day on 1st March 2010, and we have loads of great ideas that will help make SIAD 2010 our best ever.

One of these is to produce a FirstSigns calendar, and we thought it would be great if some our members could get involved and help us with [...]

The Guardian, and other newspapers, are reporting that certain hospitals and mental health centres are ‘assisting’ people to self-injure, and going so far as to provide tools to hurt yourself with.

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This is sensationalism. The newspapers are whipping up a storm. We have advised the NHS for many many years that when supporting a person in [...]