#depression – Knowledge Base – Self-Confidence – Exercise One – What does self-confidence mean to you

Self-confidence Exercise One By Ellen Prue What does self-confidence mean to you The essential first step to building your self-confidence is to assess what ‘self-confidence’ means to you. Just saying ‘I want to be more confident’ is like saying ‘I just want to travel’! Where? How? When? So, an example might be: “When I amContinueContinue reading “#depression – Knowledge Base – Self-Confidence – Exercise One – What does self-confidence mean to you”

#depression – Knowledge Base – Self-esteem and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale

The self-concept is what we think about the self; self-esteem, is the positive or negative evaluations of the self, as in how we feel about it. Smith and Mackie 2007. One of the areas I am very aware of that feeds the depression I am continuing to fight is that I allow low self-esteem toContinueContinue reading “#depression – Knowledge Base – Self-esteem and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale”

Chief medical officer: Make mental health bigger priority

Mental health needs to be more of a priority, with targets for waiting times and more protection for funding, says England’s chief medical officer. Dame Sally Davies said there were signs funding was being cut at a time when the cost to the economy was rising. Her annual report said mental illness led to theContinueContinue reading “Chief medical officer: Make mental health bigger priority”

Mental Robustness

When we think of a physically demanding occupation like soldiering we visualise the stereo typical soldier. A fine figure of a man, physically strong and exuding qualities such as stamina, perseverance and fearlessness in the face of danger, to name but a few. A word that might sum these traits up could be robustness. SoldiersContinueContinue reading “Mental Robustness”

How does a father say goodbye to his daughters?

I have been mobilized or called up to military service overseas. This means that I will be away training for a number of months and then overseas for many more months serving my countries interests. So the question floating around at the top of my mind is … how do you say good bye toContinueContinue reading “How does a father say goodbye to his daughters?”

Depression – Good advice from Mary Schmich that I have largely ignored of late… Wear sunscreen

Some good advice I remember listening too in my youth and largely ignoring of late… Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of ’97. Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest ofContinueContinue reading “Depression – Good advice from Mary Schmich that I have largely ignored of late… Wear sunscreen”