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Mental Health Midlands loves Movember
As you probably know, November is the month of ‘Mo’-vember. A time for fundraising which initially began as a charity drive to raise money and awareness around testicular cancer and the reason you’ll see so many men walking around with moustaches! This honourable...
Sport’s Disastrous Effect on Mental Health
There is a dramatic and well-documented positive correlation between being involved in sport or exercise and good mental health. Getting regular exercise releases so many good hormones that help us to maintain a positive mental health that it is only advisable to keep...
‘Real Men’ and the Real Mental Health Crisis
The Finals of the Euro 2020 took place yesterday. England, for the first time in half a century, were playing in a major competition final. Wembley Stadium was a crucible of emotion and since England team lost there has been a massive outpouring of emotions – good,...
Welcome to ‘Reopening Anxiety’ – the new epidemic
The initial outbreak of what we now know as Covid-19 feels like such a long time ago. Since those halcyon pre-pandemic days the world has dramatically, and perhaps irrevocably, changed. Here in the UK, we have endured not one but 3 lockdown situations - intense...
Does Financial Stress affect physical health in your 60s and beyond?
New research indicates there is a link between financial stress and physical pain felt in later life/
Depression In The Workplace
We cast a brief eye over depression in the workplace. We’ll look at the impact of it and a give a little insight in what depression actually is. We’ll provide a little taster of the fascinating and highly important world of mental health. Why are so many employers now focusing on mental health concerns, and why is depression such a key issue in the workplace?
7 Super Ways To Ease Workplace Stress
We give you seven tips to help you get a boost in the fight against workplace stress
Mental Health In Education
Being in the classroom has never been more of a challenge for children or their teachers. The events of 2020 have only conspired to build new barriers to learning, and experts are predicting that more and more people will succumb to mental health issues. Mental health in education is of vital importance.
The UK’s Mental Health Issues in the Workplace – 5 statistics
“The sheer numbers of people developing problems – and some may not be fully-fledged or reach the threshold for diagnosis – will escalate,”Roshan das Nair, Institute of Mental Health You may have seen many headlines discussing the UK’s Mental Health Crisis. You’ve...
ten percent of children have clinically diagnosable mental health disorders
10% of children have clinically diagnosable mental health disorders[1] For the purposes of this article, we shall be focussing on mental health and childhood. We tackle teenagers in a separate post as the two pose different issues. Put simply, childhood brain...