The Mindapples campaign

We Feel Fine Book

12 November 2009

Lots of people I know will love this new We Feel Fine book. “Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world’s newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases “I feel” and “I am feeling”. When it […]

Bringchange2mind

8 November 2009

Glenn and Jessie Close have launched a really interesting new mental health campaign called bringchange2mind. “1 in 6 adults and almost 1 in 10 children suffer from a diagnosable mental illness. Yet, for many, the stigma associated with the illness, can be as great a challenge as the disease itself. This is where the misconceptions […]

Rethink

6 August 2009

Rethink: Working together to help everyone affected by severe mental illness recover a better quality of life.

Sleepless? Stressed? Anxious? Exhausted?

13 July 2009

Relentless consumption, spiralling debt, information overload. Is modern life making you ill? William Leith discovers the hidden problems with living in a 24-hour world.

Attitudes to mental health changing ‘for the better’

13 June 2009

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 […]

The Stresses and Strains of School

9 June 2009

“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 […]

Will Happiness Find me?

8 June 2009

A sneaky peak of my new book

Young and ambitious, time for a quarter life crisis then?

1 June 2009

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 […]

Mind Orchards

31 May 2009

The gardeners at Mindapples have been thinking about ‘mental spaces’. We want to turn Mindapples into a physical community by tagging places in cities and offices as ‘Mindapples zones’. Basically, places that make you feel more mentally healthy, like a park, a great view, or a really relaxing cupboard. We want to find really beautiful, […]

Get well in the garden

26 May 2009

We’ve always known that fresh air does you good, but now it seems that getting up close and personal with gardening can improve your overall well being. Studies from the University of Bristol indicate that simply touching “friendly bacteria” in soil may alter behaviour in a way similar to that of taking antidepressants. Meanwhile, research […]