Stamp it out

Source –  Louisa Pritchard, Former Grazia magazine Features Director, now freelance journalist and contributor to The Pool, specialising in women’s issues, fertility, parenting, health, social trends and world news. Around one in four of us will experience a mental-health problem this year says Louisa Pritchard. But will we be able to tell our boss why…

Source – Hannah Jane Parkinson The Guardian Online. When I was younger, I’d have to make an excuse to leave the room whenever sex scenes came on the television. I learned to sniff out at a bedroom scene within 30 seconds and escape to make tea, or feign a yawn and head off to bed. There are…

Source – The South African College of Applied Psychology. www.sacap.edu.za “All it takes is a beautiful fake smile to hide an injured soul and they will never notice how broken you really are.” – Robin Williams If anyone knew how to disguise their inner pain it was comedic genius Robin Williams, who, in August 2014,…

We must highlight the fact that this is a guide and the Foundation appreciates that everyone is different. We welcome alternatives so please get in touch via contact us. People will often accept the amount of stress they are feeling, and that it’s just a function of every day life. Although, when anxiety and stressful…

Source http://www.101alternativehealing.com   People don’t set out to become depressed. Having said that, just because we want something doesn’t necessarily mean we actually can have it. Like many important things, conquering depression takes a lot of effort. However, if you work hard at it, you can have success; some individuals couple their own efforts with the…

The independent Mental Health Taskforce published its Five Year Forward View in February 2016 which set out the current state of mental health service provision in England and made recommendations in all service areas. NHS England accepted all the recommendations in the report for which it held responsibility and it was agreed with the Government…

  No one — not even Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson — is immune from depression. That’s the actor and former wrestler’s message to people suffering from mental illness, speaking during a video segment of Oprah’s Master Class. In the video, 43-year-old Johnson describes his own experience battling the darkness in his 20s. After graduating from the…

Mental illness can very easily get in the way of working. For those with severe mental illnesses, like bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, the unemployment rate can be as high as 60-80%. Even short periods of depression can lead to lack of motivation, loss of interest and fatigue that negatively affect performance. Fortunately, emerging research suggests that…

by Louise Bazalgette, development manager, children in care, NSPCC   We know from research that approximately half of children in care have clinical-level mental health problems; a rate that is four to five times higher than in children in the general population. This presents challenges for carers and professionals – to ensure that they provide the…