FirstSigns

A personal experience of this year’s LifeSIGNS meet-up by one of our members.

What to expect from a LifeSIGNS meet-up.

Just why our message board community is able to directly help people with self-injury concerns.

Details of how you can have your own story heard and be included in an Anthology of confidential, personal accounts of people who self-injure.

Yes, we’ve reached the grand old age of 8! We hope you’ll agree this is an impressive achievement for an unfunded, user-led voluntary organisation. Anyone can set up an organisation, but it takes a great deal of time, commitment and energy (both physical and emotional) to keep it running day after day, year after year. [...]

It’s our 8th birthday in May – won’t you help make it a celebration by donating 99 pence?

Would you like us to publish your work? Please consider writing for us; the rewards are manifold.

Looking forward to 2010, what will you achieve?

As of today, we are pleased to welcome two new message board mods to our Team. Sartor resartus and FReedomFRIES have joined our Moderating Team. Both sartor resartus and FreedomFRIES are long-standing, valuable members of FirstSigns; they are well liked and respected by members and mods alike, and it’s super to have them join our [...]

As many of us know only too well, self-injury often leads to scars; a permanent reminder of our past distress and actions. How we feel about our scars is an individual thing, and there’s no right or wrong way to feel. Some people see them as a positive thing – a sign of survival – [...]