Welcome to our new website. We’re celebrating 40 years of delivering self-harm support shaped by the people we work with. You told us support needs to be easier to find, easier to access and feel less exposing – this is part of that change. Read more about our change from Self Injury Support to Sift.

What To Do In A Crisis

If you're in a mental health emergency or need medical help for self-harm, support is available right now

Whatever you or someone you care about is going through, there are people ready to help. You are not alone.

Distractions & Alternatives

Use our suggestions for ways you might distract yourself when you feel the urge to self-harm, written by people with lived experience.

First Aid for Self-Harm

Knowing basic first aid if you self-harm, can help you care for woundsavoid infection and guide your decisions about when to seek medical help.