Helping you

We all need a little help, support, and love, while we work through our self-harm. Self-help and self-care can replace self-injury.

Recognising that our self-injury / self-harm isn’t as ‘helpful’ as we’d like to believe is a big step. Everyone needs ways of coping, ways of dealing with the stress and distress, but we can learn other ways of managing our emotions.

While getting support from others and from professional services is often really helpful (if also quite stressing) self-help is the first idea to consider when you’re ready to reduce your reliance on self-injury.

LifeSIGNS is led and managed by people with personal experience of self-harm – everything you read here has been written by someone who struggles with the urge to hurt:

Comments (3)

on Apr 07, 2015, 4:35 pm

sapphire

hey i need help to try to stop self harm my self because i get worse. i’ve got mental illness – self harm and depression and anxiety and more problems. i was 13 year old i was started to hurt myself i am nearly 22 now, so i try everything to stop it – i take it too far. my mum and my family and my friends dont understand whats going on about my life and i always put a fake smile and mask on and i cant open up about how i feel inside :( and i got disablies and i got speech problems, i would like help about stopping self harm thanks.

a lot of people struggle to ‘stop’. We think it’s a journey – sometimes a long journey.

Don’t put too much pressure on yourself to ‘stop’, instead, learn different ways of coping. Do different things instead of hurting yourself. It won’t be the same, I know, but over time you can reduce the number of times you hurt yourself.