It’s been month or two now since coming off the antidepressants again … maybe longer, I’m not really sure. It wasn’t an event I have marked on the calendar. Things have been ‘ok’. Life throws little challenges on a day to day basis and you deal with them. Using the proverbial toolbox to keep thingsContinueContinue reading “Into the storm, again..”
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#depression – Mental Health Education for the young… #MindFullLaunch
Put mental health on timetable, schools urged By Judith Burns BBC News education reporter Mental health lessons should be on the timetable in every secondary school in the UK a new charity has urged. Too many pupils with symptoms of depression or anxiety are let down or ignored, claims charity MindFull. It has launched aContinueContinue reading “#depression – Mental Health Education for the young… #MindFullLaunch”
#depression – How do you find hope when you are blind to it?
Hello one and all… Normally I try hard to tinge whatever I write here with a sense of optimism and hope. However, today I find that little four letter word, hope, a real challenge. I am faced with a real challenge that is difficult to see the seeds of hope within. The saying goes thatContinueContinue reading “#depression – How do you find hope when you are blind to it?”
#depression – Men’s Health Week: facing up to male mental health problems #mhw13
Men’s Health Week: facing up to male mental health problems We find it hard to think of men as vulnerable, and their psychological suffering is often overlooked Men’s Mental Health Week aims to understand the psychological and social problems men experience and offer support. Photograph: Gregory Bull/AP Over the past 30 years three to fourContinueContinue reading “#depression – Men’s Health Week: facing up to male mental health problems #mhw13”
#depression – Men’s Health Week 10-16 June 2013 #mhw13 #timetotalk
This one has crept up on me but now it is time to spread the WORD! Week of the 10-16 June, leading up to Father’s Day is Men’s Health Week.Focus this year is men’s mental health and the promotion of mental well-being and help-seeking in men. It is spearheaded by the Men’s Health Forum YouContinueContinue reading “#depression – Men’s Health Week 10-16 June 2013 #mhw13 #timetotalk”
#drepression – Men and Depression Help – Royal College of Psychiatrists – #mhw13
Having just found this ‘leaflet’ I thought it best to share it’s content and raise the profile further regarding men and depression, read, digest, learn and put to use… Depression and Men About this leaflet This leaflet is for: any man who feels depressed anyone whose husband, partner, brother, father and male friend seems depressed. MenContinueContinue reading “#drepression – Men and Depression Help – Royal College of Psychiatrists – #mhw13”
#depression – He slipped through my fingers while I held him!
You are NOT alone… YOU .. are .. NOT .. alone… Less than five minutes ago I learn that a guy I helped a few weeks ago, when he fell from his delivery van and injured his ankle, has commited suicide. The thing that makes me feel sad, a little angry with myself and wishingContinueContinue reading “#depression – He slipped through my fingers while I held him!”
#depression Breakfast at the silver car
For some weeks now I have seen a silver car parked on a siding as I drive to work. It’s not there every day. When it is in residence I can see the passenger seat has be been wound down to make a temporary bed for someone. On the odd occasion I have seen theContinueContinue reading “#depression Breakfast at the silver car”
Reworking Joseph 