Mental Health Awareness Week runs from 15th – 21st May. The focus this year is on anxiety, and in particular the anxiety caused by the current cost of living crisis.
It is a time to celebrate our four-legged friends and all the benefits that they bring to us.
Volunteer Bryan Woods give us some valuable tips about managing our Mental Wellbeing.
The statistics are shocking. In Britain today, one in six children aged from five to sixteen are likely to have a mental health problem. (That is up from one in nine children in 2017.)
Bryan Woods tells us his own experience of this.
It’s TIME TO TALK day on 2nd February.
Bryan Woods talks to us – let’s listen, and act.
Bryan Woods tells, from his own experience, about the desperate need for change in attitudes towards and treatment of people who live with mental health challenges.
Bryan Woods writes in celebration of World Mental Health Day on 10-10-2023
I have been in my home in Taroudant, Morocco since the middle of August. The seconds when the world shook around me, and I thought the building I was in would collapse, were the most terrifying of my life.
The Health and Social Care Act was passed in 2012. At the time it was hailed as, “…the most extensive reorganisation of the structure of the National Health Service in England to date.“ However, the Act has had a catastrophic effect on people who are seeking help for drug and alcohol addiction.
The practice of art can help to reduce anxiety and stress. It is an absorbing hobby that focuses the mind. I like nothing better than to be outdoors drawing or sketching. Becoming totally engrossed in capturing on paper what is in front of me.
Hammersley Homes is committed to raising awareness of the impact of serious mental illness on people and communities. During the New Forest Show 2023 we ran a competition to test visitors’ knowledge of mental health facts
This week is Small Charity Week. It is a time to celebrate and raise awareness of the vital contribution that small charities make to our society.
