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Contact us for free, confidential, non-judgemental support around self-injury and related issues.

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We have not been able to respond as quickly as usual to emails and publication orders due to building work
Bristol Women’s Groups Celebrate Decades of Grassroots Activism with Cake, Improv Theatre and Speed Dating

Self injury Support and Bristol Women's Voice are hosting a city-wide celebration of women's grassroots health activism on 25th April in Bristol.
Self injury Support discusses the impact of social media on Woman's Hour 8/2/19

Listen to our Director, Naomi Salisbury and Jane Garvey, BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour presenter, discuss the decision by instagram to ban images of self harm.
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Apologies for Service Disruption

We have not been able to respond as quickly as usual to emails and publication orders due to building work
Bristol Women’s Groups Celebrate Decades of Grassroots Activism with Cake, Improv Theatre and Speed Dating

Self injury Support and Bristol Women's Voice are hosting a city-wide celebration of women's grassroots health activism on 25th April in Bristol.

Direct support services

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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.