20th November 2019
By Khudayja Datoo If you observed children and adults wearing odd socks last week, it may have been more than an expression of a distinctive sense of style. Monday 11th November to Friday 15th November 2019 marked Anti-Bullying Week, with an Odd Socks Day – a fun and free way to raise awareness about bullying, More…
25th October 2019
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, a condition characterised by obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviours, is often accompanied by the terrorising trio of guilt, shame and disgust. Taboo thoughts and feelings can lead suffers to experience guilt as the content of their obsessions become directly opposed to their morals or beliefs. For example, a religious person who experiences More…
16th October 2019
By Jessica Dodds This week is Baby Loss Awareness Week. Every year, thousands of people experience the loss of a baby; whether it’s before or after birth, or at infancy. In the UK, nine babies are still born every day and one in four pregnancies result in a miscarriage. Yet baby loss is still such More…
10th October 2019
Today is World Mental Health Day; an awareness day that is one of the most important days in my calendar. This year, the theme is ‘Suicide Prevention’. Anyone who follows our blogs (and has read any of mine) will know that suicide is another issue that is very close to my heart, and that is More…
3rd October 2019
By Lily and Jasmine This month OCD UK are running the campaign #OCDtober! This aims to raise awareness surrounding Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), a common mental health condition by which the individual suffers with obsessive thoughts and intense compulsive behaviours. Although most likely to develop during early adulthood, it can affect anyone of any age More…
8th August 2019
Oscar Johnson National road victim month not only looks at those we’ve lost but those who survive. Many people that survive are physically okay but they could still be struggling. Many people experience survivor’s guilt. By definition survivors guilt is “a condition of persistent mental and emotional stress experienced by someone who has survived an More…
18th June 2019
The 17th to the 21st June marks Loneliness Awareness Week in the UK; a week aimed at reducing stigma around loneliness and helping people to connect. Loneliness has been suggested to be as harmful to our health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, and can have an enormous impact on our physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing. Whilst More…
17th June 2019
Today, 17th June 2019, marks International Father’s Mental Health Day (founded in 2016 by Mark Williams and Dr Daniel Singley )- raising global awareness about the need for better support systems for new fathers as well as new mothers. ‘Perinatal’ is the term that refers to the period of time leading up to and after More…
9th June 2019
Today is Transverse Myelitis Awareness day! …Transverse- what, sorry? Transverse Myelitis (TM) is a rare neurological condition, so you will be forgiven for not having heard of it before. The average GP sees a case of TM once every 100 years. TM is thought to be the result of the immune system mistakenly attacking the More…
31st May 2019
By Nathan Harper. National growing for wellbeing week – 3rd-7th June It is said that growing your own produce {fruit/veg} can improve your physical and mental wellbeing. There are health benefits to gardening e.g. improved mental health, improved physical health, confidence, communication, concentration, self-belief. You can develop new skills when gardening and work with other More…