Urgent Help

If you or somebody else is in immediate danger, call 999.

For urgent medical attention visit Accident & Emergency (A&E) or make an Emergency GP appointment.

For urgent medical advice you can call the NHS 111 (England) or NHS Direct (Wales).

Our services

Self Injury Helpline - 0808 800 8088

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 7pm - 9.30pm.

Call us for free, confidential, non-judgemental emotional support around self-injury.

For more information click here.

TESS text and webchat support

Text us on 07537 432444. For Webchat, click on the box on this page.

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 7pm – 9.30pm.

For more information click here.

Latest

I am writing this because I need to read this - guest blog from Hattie Porter

I felt worried about writing this. It feels self-centred to be so focused on what I’m going through amidst the scale of a pandemic. But that’s exactly why I need to write this. Because I am not the only one feeling like this. Because sometimes just hearing an echo of your own thoughts is enough to feel less alone for a little while.
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.

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.