Welcome to our coping strategies section. If you're trying to stop self injuring it can sometimes be hard to know how to stop yourself. This page has been designed to give you some different things you can do and it is where you can find articles and other types of help and information on a variety of topics related to coping with self harm. We have covered areas such as stopping self harm, distraction techniques, and getting professional advice.

Please check out the following areas:

Dealing With Self Injury

Managing Self Injury

Reducing and Stopping Self Injury

Distraction Techniques

Coping Strategies

Harm Minimisation

First Aid

Self Injury Awareness Cymru is now selling Distraction Boxes, designed to help distract you from self harming. Each box is made of dark blue cardboard and contains an art cube, a cuddly toy, a rubix cube keyring, a book of puzzles (crosswords, wordsearches, etc.), a pen, a maze puzzle and a bag of Guatamalen worry people.

We're currently selling them for £15, which covers the cost of making the box and the postage. Any profit made will go straight back into running Self Injury Awareness Cymru.

We'll soon be selling Self Harm Survival Kits, which will include things like question cards, useful contact numbers and others items that can help you develop coping skills to deal with self harm. The Self Harm Survival Kits will also be sold at a minimal cost.

We are also hoping to be able to give away first aid kits which will provide you with the tools you need to take care of your wounds. If we are unable to find a sponsor to allow us to give away these, we will sell them but at a nominal cost.

More information and ordering details for these, and other items, can be found in our shop.