FirstSigns

user-led self-harm voluntary organisation

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Self-injury: Self-expression inside out – Not just a girl thing

Today we bring you the third part of my article published in the Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal last year. The media tend to focus on young girls who cut themselves. Women’s magazines and teen magazines for girls reflect their audiences, so naturally stay focused on girls who self-injure. By contrast, men’s magazines hardly touch [...]


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Categorized as Raising Awareness

Research, happiness, statistics and lies

What is it with researchers? Why is it that every study that comes out contradicts the previous one? One month coffee is good for the heart, the next it’s bad. One year mono-unsaturates are good for you, but these days we have to avoid ‘trans-fats’ – whatever they are. More people are staying in the [...]


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Categorized as Health & Happiness, Members, Organisation Announcements, Message Board, Research, The Media