Self-Harm - what, who, why and how to help

Bullet points of the key information needed to understand self-injury

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Meet the Team

Meet the team of our oral history project, Women Listening to Women!
What is self-harm? Signs and causes
Springing into action

Spring is in the air, we can finally drink tea in each other’s gardens and little shoots of hope that the next 12 months might not be as gruelling as the last are poking through...
Guide to support students through COVID-19

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, Wednesday and Thursday from 7pm - 9.30pm. Please click here for details of how to access our support services.
What is self-injury?

Understand more about self-harm and self-injury
UK Support Groups and Other Services

Comprehensive listing of local and national self-harm and self-injury support groups and organisations
Why does it happen?

Find out some of the reasons behind self-harm and self-injury
Rainbow Journal - Personal Self-Help Diary
Helpful responses to self-injury

Short and long term helpful responses to self-injury
Risk Factors

Learn about the factors that increase the risk of self-harm and self-injury
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
Launch of Self-Harm Prevention App distrACT

Self injury Support was involved in the development of the distrACT a self-harm prevention app launched in Bristol in November 2017.