I’m Elle, I am a 3rd year at Durham University and have had personal experience with SI and RYL for some time.
I am now writing my dissertation about self injury, particularly how self injury affects your relationships with people and every day life.
The RYL moderators have given me permission to ask for volunteers on RYL to help me with my research.
The topics I’m hoping to talk about should be non triggering; from stuff like how you feel about wearing short t-shirts and how you feel about scars to how you feel among your friends and family or people in general if it is different at all etc.
But mostly I’m hoping that you will inspire me by your individual stories rather than trying to write what everyone thinks we/you will say.
I am looking for people over the age of 18 who would be willing to chat to me about their experiences and lives via msn/live messenger or skype etc. This will be really informal at any time which is convenient for you and for however long you can spare: 10 minutes to 2 hours.
If you are interested or can spare me some time I would really love to hear from you; either reply below, PM me or mail me at floxie@live.co.uk and we can arrange a time to chat that suits you.
I will also be posting some open questions in the forum over the next couple of weeks about topics that I would want to chat to you about. Any contributions or comments would be massively appreciated.
If you don’t feel that you would like to take part actively, it would be wonderful if you could give me permission to quote your old posts in my work.
If you would be OK with me doing that either reply below or PM me.
Obviously any contribution will be kept totally anonymous; usernames wont be quoted and RYL wont be identified as the location, nothing will be quoted directly. I will be the only person who will ever read anything you write and I will destroy any comments after the research has been submitted.
If you want any other information please get in touch
Thank you so much for your help
Looking forward to hearing from you soon
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Make us all feel wonderful. We'll never forget."
If you are still looking for people then I can do it. I know what it's like getting people to help with research projects and the necessity of it all. I'm 21, but I very rarely SI on my arms, so don't know how that would impact on your research? My MSN is a bit dodgy, but there's always e-mail or whatever suits you.
Five months too young to help you out I'm afraid :p
If there's anything else I can do to help though I'd be really interested, this kind of thing fascinates me.
I'm 20 and willing to help you. I'm not sure if I'd be any use as I am just over a year free of self injury, but I was SIing for roughly 7 years (from the age of 12).
Please PM me if I can help out :) xxx
so I'd have to sort that out first
