Lending a Hand: Supporting Those Living with Anxiety and Depression
Supporting a loved one through anxiety and depression can be the hardest thing. Don’t become one of the 1 in 4 because you’re caring for a 1 in 4.
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Dads, Your Health Matters: Be the Role Model Your Children Deserve
Being a dad brings purpose and meaning and is especially important as us dads need to be role models for our children. This duty is more important that we often realize. Learn more about it.
Rethinking Mental Health: A Holistic Approach To Wellbeing Over Self diagnosis and Illness
Should we be promoting holistic healthcare to boost resilience and our wellbeing over honing in on illness and encouraging a culture of self diagnosis?
Embracing the Purpose of Worry: to build resilience to worry we need to understand it
Throughout the years, I’ve witnessed firsthand the profound impact anxiety, particularly worry, can have on individuals’ well-being. It’s a universal human experience that touches each of our lives at some point. We’ve all found ourselves worrying about what might unfold in a job interview or who will be present at a social gathering. However, for …
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Stoicism: An ancient way to build purpose and resilience in the modern world
A lot of us are struggling to find purpose and meaning. Does stoicism offer a framework to live in this modern hectic world? Maybe it does.
Lifting, Talking and Standing Tall
We were invited to tell our story by the Cardiff University Alumni Team.
‘I HAVE ANXIETY: SO DO WE ALL. WHEN DOES IT BECOME A PROMLEM?
When people say to me, ‘I have anxiety’, I usually ask them ‘what is anxiety? Why do we get anxious?’ What I often get is ‘it’s worrying…it’s debilitating…it’s horrible…anxiety is when I can’t do anything’. If I ask ‘what is the function of it?’ A typical response a lot of the time is; ‘I don’t …
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Demystifying Help for Depression: ‘I’m Depressed, what happens next?’
The word ‘depression’ is bandied around. People say it when a netflix series is over a bit too quickly or the supermarket has run out of a flavour of crisp. There is still so much misunderstanding about it. Depression can debilitate, cause undue stress, make everything grey, can stop a father seeing his worth and …
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Stress: Public Enemy Number one
Over the last year or so, especially the post COVID world of homeworking and increasing global uncertainty, I am beginning to notice a trend, a theme of symptoms that just seem a bit more apparent than usual. Things like; ‘I just cannot get anything done…I cannot focus…concentration is shot…up through the night…just so distracted all …
What Advice Would I Give To My Son? A Mental Health Nurse Perspective
Some ways to improve your mental health and wellbeing from perspective of a mental health nurse