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Email Support is Back!

Our email support service is back up and running after a break due to technical issues. Our email service is back up and running again and will be open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 7pm-9.30pm. You can send an email at any time but we will only respond during our service hours.
Coping with Coronavirus Lockdown When Your Mental Health is Already Not Great

There’s lots of advice springing up all over the internet about how to look after your mental health and wellbeing in self isolation, but what we’re hearing from people we support is that information isn’t so useful if you were already struggling with your mental health beforehand and many of the suggestions such as routines and home cooking feel impossible right now. We don’t pretend to have the answers but here are a few thoughts you might find useful.
We're Still Open - Please Tell Us What Information and Support You Want to See

Our text and webchat services are still open 7-9.30pm Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. We are in the process of updating our online self-help materials and really want to hear suggestions about what you would like to see on our site as well as tips and ideas for coping that you would like to share with others. Please tell us what you would like to see or for others to know and we will be sharing a series of blogs and social media posts over the coming weeks.
Coronavirus Self injury Support Services Update March 17th 2020

In order to keep our staff and volunteers safe and to ensure continuity of our support services, we are moving to a text and webchat only support service from this evening Tuesday 17th March.

Women Listening to Women

Self Injury Support has received money from the National Lottery Heritage Fund to research the story of how our pioneering service was created. Over the next 12 months volunteers will be helping us interview the founding members of Bristol Crisis Service for Women and digging through our archives to piece together the story of how female activists in Bristol created a groundbreaking service for women in distress.
Free to self-injure? Should self-harm be prevented?
The interpretive difficulties of self-harm in “Sharp Objects”
Seeing Self-Harm as an embodied social practice
How might a social media crackdown on self-harm content actually work?
Hearing Voices
‘Hearing voices led me to self-harm’
On Edge Self Harm Lesson Plan Resource Pack
Guidance on teaching about mental health and emotional wellbeing
Self-injury and Autism

Direct support services

Please click here for details of how to access our support services.
What is self-injury?

Understand more about self-harm and self-injury
Why does it happen?

Find out some of the reasons behind 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
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.