Attitudes to mental health changing ‘for the better’
Sue Baker, director of the Time to Change programme, which is tackling the stigma around mental health problems, said: “Attitudes towards mental health issues are finally beginning to move in the right direction. Deep-seated prejudices are starting to shift and it’s a further sign that we are heading towards a tipping point in England and […]
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Steph’s Mindapple
Thank you to Product Designer Steph Fulke for sharing her mindapples space. “Mindapples are trying to get people to identify their place in which they feel happy and relaxed. By appreciating a place helps you to be mindful. Here is mine. A window seat on either a train, buss or car. I drift… I daydream…Where […]
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The Stresses and Strains of School
“Laura Liz Partoon is remarkable. While still at school (she’s just left and is hoping to go to Roehampton University), she set up her own campaign,The Stresses and Strains of School. Her aim, as you can see from her short video above is to promote and improve the mental health and wellbeing of students.” “I’ve seen friends […]
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A curious mind is an active mind
Curiosity means being open to the unfamiliar, and to whatever emotions may result, then arguably any strategy for achieving happiness – for guaranteeing happy feelings, rather than sad ones – is intrinsically incurious. Train yourself to be curious and seek the unfamiliar.
Continue reading Young and ambitious, time for a quarter life crisis then?
A quarter life crisis happens shortly after a young person – usually an educated professional – enters the “real world”. I don’t know about anybody else, but the “quarterlife crisis” is as real as anything for me. I’m 29, with two degrees, £20,000 of debt, and two part-time jobs to pay it off. Neither earns […]
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