A trial seeks further proof that tuning into our internal organs’ activity can reduce anxiety … Hannah Devlin reports for The Guardian: “A pioneering therapy aimed at lowering anxiety by tuning into your own heartbeat is being put to the test…
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Sabrina Benaim’s poem “Explaining My Depression to My Mother” begins like this: “Explaining my depression to my mother: A conversation Mom, my depression is a shapeshifter One day it’s as small as a firefly in the palm of a bear…
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Amy Gladwell reports for the BBC : “Many of us associate the sea with feeling happy, relaxed and switching off from life’s stress. But there’s growing belief that being near, on, in, or under water has a far more powerful impact on our mental,…
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Writing in the Times Educational Supplement , Natasha Devon says: “Last week, Damian Hinds announced that there would be mandatory mental health education in all primary and secondary schools across England from 2020. The education secretary’s proposal states that children should be taught how to be more…
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From an article by Benedict Carey in The New York Times: “The deaths of the designer Kate Spade and the chef Anthony Bourdain, both of whom committed suicide this week, were not simply pop culture tragedies. They were the latest markers of an intractable public health crisis that has been unfolding in slow motion for a generation . Treatment…
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This book was written by Johann Hari (January, 2018). The publishers say: “What really causes depression and anxiety – and how can we really solve them? New York Times best-selling author Johann Hari suffered from depression since he was a…
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Damian Scarf experienced the debilitating effects of anxiety first hand when, shortly after entering university, he was pushed to cut off his social groups to achieve higher grades. Now it’s the topic of his research, and Damian shows us first…
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In this 5 minute video (see below), Debs Taylor describes the impact of attending Creative Minds’ art classes in her recovery from mental illness. The video was recorded at a King’s Fund conference – “Social prescribing: from rhetoric to reality” – on 18 May 2017: …
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The Big Anxiety brought together artists, scientists and communities to question and re-imagine the state of mental health in the 21st century. It presented over 60 events across Greater Sydney (Australia) from September 20th – November 11th 2017, tackling the…
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Writing in The Guardian , Debbie Taylor: “When I was growing up in the 1970s, mental health issues were not widely understood or discussed. One morning when I was eight-years-old, I woke up in bed and felt funny, I was shaking. It…
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