I didn't know if this was the right board so feel free to move if it's not.
But I don't understand why people say they are 'celebrating SIAD' or wishing people a 'happy SIAD'? Like, is the fact that we need to raise awareness of this, honestly horrible, behaviour, something we should celebrate?
I'm sorry if I don't make much sense, it's been a long day. But I genuinely don't understand why SIAD should be celebrated? I support it, and I fully support raising awareness. But celebrate...?
As I said, I support it and I will wear orange today.
Does it not risk creating the wrong impression, that we're celebrating self-harm? (Thinking from an outsider-who-has-never-self-harmed-view, not mine)
Well, for me.
I don't think "Awareness" is an issue nowadays. Everyone knows about self harm, if they don't understand, a poster isn't going to change their mind.
I think it's a good day to be very pro-recovery.
It doesn't matter where you come from; it matters where you go.
No-one gets remembered for the things they didn't do.
We won't all be here this time next year,
so while you can take a picture of us.
We're definitely going to hell,
but we'll have all the best stories to tell.
Mmm, though I'm unsure that we'd make much difference with one day.
I don't think wearing orange is going to make someone who's judgmental less judgemental. If you want to do that you need to talk.
I think having a day to be more positive can't be a bad thing though.
It doesn't matter where you come from; it matters where you go.
No-one gets remembered for the things they didn't do.
We won't all be here this time next year,
so while you can take a picture of us.
We're definitely going to hell,
but we'll have all the best stories to tell.
I personally use it to promote awareness, and I do wear orange. And I guess I am more willing to talk. If I wear orange, I am openly showing I am aware of SIAD so I figure I have idk a responsibility to answer genuine questions, which I'm cool with.
most years in the past I have done talks in schools or given a lecture on SI/EDs around SIAD... a few years I organised public debates too, and one year sold cupcakes to raise money for a SI charity.
Not doing anything this year though as life has gotten in the way will be putting up a few posters though as got permission from the council so may as well use it.
No. I don't view observing SIAD as promoting self-injury. It's a day to dispel ignorance about a common issue many people suffer with in silence. I am wearing orange today.
Well, for me.
I don't think "Awareness" is an issue nowadays. Everyone knows about self harm, if they don't understand, a poster isn't going to change their mind.
I think it's a good day to be very pro-recovery.
Surprisingly not.
Like previous years for SIAD, Melissa C. Water (Idranktheseawater on YouTube) went round a city (this year it was Newcastle upon Tyne (she's from Canada)) informing people of SIAD and raising awareness - and a few people didn't even know what self harm was (these were teenage girls, or girls in their early twenties). It's surpising to see that not everyone knows about self harm or what it is, and if they do - it's only from seeing on television.
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"it’s when you’re acting selflessly, that you are at your bravest"
- Four.
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I made an FB status about the day and totally understand the need for raising awareness, but sometimes I can't help but think back to when I first started. Had my school friend at the time not been hurting herself, and had there not been a storyline on Hollyoaks with a young school girl cutting herself, then I'm not sure if I would have thought to try it, or at least thought to try it as soon as I did. I wonder if anyone else has been influenced as easily as I was as a 15/16 year old or if it was just myself that was. I've often wondered about that side of raising awareness. I do appreciate that it's a good thing though, otherwise I wouldn't have bothered to do an FB status, for what good it may or may not have done.
I agree that to "celebrate" it can sound a little odd from an outsider's perspective. It does seem like an odd choice of word.
will be putting up a few posters though as got permission from the council so may as well use it.
