About Self-Injury Awareness Day
The actual beginning of Self-injury Awareness Day (SIAD) is not known, but this special day is celebrated as Self-Injury Awareness Month (March) in the United States of America and Canada. Self-Injury Awareness Day (SIAD) is celebrated yearly on March 1 for the purpose of eliminating the stigma attributed to self-injury as well as encouraging parents, family members, educators, and healthcare professionals to acknowledge the signs of self-harm.
Self-harm is considered a disease that can happen to any person not only among teenage or young adulthood. One of the main reasons behind self-injury is depression and according to statistics, up to 2 million people in the United States alone are diagnosed with self-injury disease. Most often these people inflicted self-harm by cutting, burning or scratching the skin, and hitting themselves and breaking bones, along with other more harmful methods that they can think of. Most of them are frequently left alone and that is why they need support and treatment as the disease can always lead to suicidal behavior due to fear of being labelled as crazy by the people surrounding them.
Self-Injury Awareness Day Activities
Self-Injury Awareness Day (SIAD) activities that you can participate with awareness organizations are important especially in creating public awareness and understanding, sympathy, expelling judgment and fear as well as reducing the number of people, who feel lonely or undergo the disease in silence.
Organization like LifeSIGNS is always the place for you to find assistance and they are capable of providing the resources and support. We need all the help that we can get in sharing the responsibility to educate our friends, family members, the public and healthcare providers.
Some of the SIAD activities that you can do include sharing SIAD videos via social media, display SIAD poster on public notice board, selling or buying LifeSIGNS wristband in support of SIAD, wearing, an orange awareness ribbon showing support for SIAD, Hand out SIAD fact sheets at work place, schools or college; propose Self-injury policy in schools or colleges or even collaborating with local radio station during SIAD. If you are an avid blogger, you can simply write an article related to self-injury or personal experiences that can be shared with millions of people through the internet.
Self-Injury Awareness Day Flowers
Flower gifts can also be a part of Self-Injury Awareness Day (SIAD) for example flowers with the same colour that symbolize global symbols of SIAD, which is orange. Decoration of lovely Self-Injury Awareness Day (SIAD) flowers that uses the orange colours will definitely light up the SIAD celebration. You can choose orange flowers like Begonia, Bird of Paradise, Chrysanthemum, Roses, Liliums and Tulips according to the events that you participate together with any awareness organizations that help create special efforts to raise awareness about self-harm and self-injury among the public.