Routine: The Silent Hero of Our Mental Health and Wellbeing
Routine is a cornerstone of wellbeing. Find out how therapeutic approaches leverage routine building to boost Mental health.
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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.
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.
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.
‘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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Depression: What is it? What Can I do about it?
Depression is everyone’s business. You’ve probably already seen a range of stats and percentages strewn across social media. Depending on where you get your sources, depression is commonplace throughout society and is the 4th largest cause of disability. There are some worrying recent stats from the Office of National Statistics stating that 21% of adults …
Stand Tall Podcast#2 – Depression
Welcome, to our second podcast. Tonight we are discussing depression. SHOW NOTES If you are struggling, please reach out to Support Community advice and listening line – https://www.callhelpline.org.uk/ Samaritans – https://www.samaritans.org/?nation=wales NHS – https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/mental-health-services/ Welcome to the Stand Tall Podcast. We are 2 guys who on a mission to learn about physical and mental health and hopefully get …
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 …