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.
Nurturing Mental Wellbeing: A Holistic Approach to ADHD
Firstly, let’s be clear. As a mental health nurse, I am not specifically trained to assess or diagnose Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). I also want to acknowledge my own biases: my primary agenda is to advocate for people regardless of their difficulties to have the knowledge and skills to help themselves and take pride in …
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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?
‘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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Why is looking after your Wellbeing important?
Now I don’t have a slick definition of what wellbeing is and all definitions I look at don’t seem to represent what I think. They just cover all sorts of terms and phrases; productivity, senses of happiness, social connectedness etc. Others say it is a subjective sense of how you feel. Perhaps they are all …