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20Mar

International Happiness Day: Go Out and Play

Elisha Goldstein

anxiety, depression, happiness, society, stress, wellbeing

Soul

Children play. Nobody has to show them how to do it; they're just born knowing.  But as adults, we become so disconnected from it that we forget what it is and how to do it. Psychiatrist Stuart Brown, who founded the nonprofit organisation National Institute of Play in California, says: 'Play is an ancient, voluntary, inherently pleasurable, apparently purposeless activity or process that is undertaken for its own sake, and that strengthens our muscles and social skills, fertilises brain activity, tempers and deepens out emotions, take us out of time, and enables a...
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11Mar

The Relationship between Dust and Depression

Marina Gask

depression, home, stress

Mind

It's not easy to keep going with the little things when you are suffering from depression - here's some tips to help with housework when you're feeling depressed.
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04Mar

A Happier, Healthier You: The Welldoing How To Guide

Welldoing

anxiety, books, depression, mindfulness, wellbeing

Soul

This is just a quick post, to proudly announce that we have published an eBook: A Happier, Healthier You: The Welldoing How To Guide We have collected contributions from a wonderful array of experts, psychologists and writers, who offer their best advice on subjects that will – we hope – serve to make life less stressful and more enjoyable and balanced for you too. This How To Guide is all about your mind and body, with advice ranging from how best to start the day, how to build inner strength, how to find the job you love - and everything in between. And it's...
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04Mar

Suicide Prevention: How You Can Help

Gill Green

bereavement, depression, suicide

Mind

What can we do to help if we suspect someone we know is thinking of suicide?
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27Feb

Expressive Writing for Mental Wellbeing

Dennis Relojo-Howell

anxiety, creativity, depression, wellbeing

Soul

Expressive writing , sometimes called written emotional disclosure, is a fancy term for such a simple act: expressing oneself through writing. Most of us have done it at one point in our lives through keeping a journal or a diary. But of course, with modern age, it is now being done with a keyboard. To some extent, keeping a personal blog can be considered as a form of expressive writing. Tracing the roots of expressive writing Expressive writing is a therapy introduced by Pennebaker and Beall in the late 1980s. Their pioneering work (Pennebaker & Beall, 1986)...
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23Feb

Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2015

Harriet Frew

anxiety, counselling, depression, eatingdisorders, society, therapy

Therapists

Eating Disorders Awareness week is here! It’s running from Monday 23rd February to Sunday 1st March and it is a time to raise awareness and improve understanding about eating disorders across the UK. You may be reading this and know someone who has an eating disorder. Or possibly you yourself have eating issues and are feeling a bit stuck and helpless in what to do. This could be your week to get the information and support you need to begin to address your eating problem or support a loved one as they begin to consider change. It has to be one of the most...
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17Feb

Are you a Distressed Diabetic?

Ken Tait

counselling, depression, hypnotherapy, stress, therapy

Therapists

Tips and strategies for handling your diabetes
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04Feb

Writing Music to Overcome Depression

Leanne Brookes

creativity, depression, music, wellbeing

Mind

One afternoon I had a moment of clarity and wrote all of the words, in one prolific sitting, to a song for my Dad. He moved to America when I was four and I dragged a heavy anchor of anger and disappointment behind me most of my life as a result. I describe in the piano ballad how I was confused and missed him as a child, felt that he didn't know me as a teenager, as an adult I needed him and finally in the present day, I forgave him. Along with a very long letter, I sent this song, which I called ’The Gift’, to my Dad in the mail. It was the closure that I...
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28Jan

Postnatal Depression: What it is and How to Deal With it

Sarah McGuinness

counselling, depression, family, PND, postnataldepression, therapy, women

Mind

The need-to-know about postnatal depression, a condition which affects many new mothers.
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21Jan

Self-Acceptance: Letting Go of Regret

Camilla Nicholls

anxiety, change, depression, therapy

Mind

Don't hang on to things you regret - learn to accept yourself with all your faults
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