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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
Support Services: Take Our Survey!

If you have recently used our support services (helpline, text, webchat or email) we would really like your feedback in order to help evaluate and improve our services.

What is self-harm? Signs and causes
Guide to support students through COVID-19
Were you involved with the Bristol Crisis Service for Women between 1986 and 2014?

Get involved with our heritage project! Over the next 18 months we will be recording oral histories of the women who founded, worked and volunteered at the pioneering Bristol Crisis Service for Women. We want to capture as many memories of being involved with this groundbreaking organisation from as many women as possible, so if you or someone you know have got something to share, please get in touch.
Women Listening to Women

We are recruiting volunteers to help us research and record the story of how feminist activists created the Bristol Crisis Service for Women, a groundbreaking peer-led organisation 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’

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
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.