Self-help information and resources

Our self-help resources are all based on the collective experiences of peers who use self harm, and the strategies they found helpful to cope. You can also read the resources in Cantonese, Polish and Punjabi. Read more

Mental Health and Traumatic Experiences

Wounds, scars and medical aid

Managing thoughts and feelings

Distractions and alternatives

Getting Help

Understanding your self-injury

About the Self injury Support Library

The Self-Injury Support Library is a one-stop collection of useful, reliable and up to date resources on self-injury from around the web. Read more

Creative Self Help Ideas and Strategies

Picking up the pieces after psychosis

Picking up the pieces after psychosis: During psychosis I had delusions where I thought that people were out to get me. I believed that Extinction Rebellion were targeting me for not recycling enough, that an intricate web of journalists were monitoring my every move, and that I was on a TV show like The Truman Show.
Past Event: Women Listening to Women: A History of Self-Injury & Mental Health Activism

Find out about the gendered stereotypes of self-harm, and how pioneering women-led services like Self Injury Support have countered them.
Making Gentle Activism

Gentle Activism uses the oral histories collected by the Women Listening to Women project to explore the history of Bristol Crisis Service for Women. But what was the process of creating these podcasts like?
Women Listening to Women website, podcasts and exhibition launched!

Our Women Listening to Women oral history project has launched a host of new resources including an exhibition, podcasts and a brand new website. Find out about the history of the incredible women who made the organisation what it is today, and used empathy and listening to change understandings of self-injury.

Women's Self Injury Support Services

Please don't hesitate to contact us for free, confidential, non-judgemental support around self-injury and related issues. All services open Tuesday and Thursday from 7pm - 9.30pm. Please click here for details of how to access our support services.
UK Support Groups and Other Services

Comprehensive listing of local and national self-harm and self-injury support groups and organisations
Rainbow Journal - Personal Self-Help Diary
Helpful responses to self-injury

Short and long term helpful responses to self-injury
What if I don't want to stop self-harming?
About Us - Our Vision, Our Mission, Our Values

Read more about our vision that anyone who uses self-injury knows they are not alone; that everyone understands that self-injury is a complex and important issue we should all care about and that together we tackle both the causes and stigma of self-injury.
Distractions and alternatives
What is self-injury?

Understand more about self-harm and self-injury
New and Updated Self-Harm Training

Self injury Support has 30 years’ experience in delivering high quality self-harm training to a wide variety of settings and participants. Our approach is participative and reflective, and is focused on bringing the voice of people who use self-harm into the room, building empathy and confidence for supporters.
Reducing self-harm worksheet

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