Over the coming months I’ll be publishing occasional articles, podcasts and maybe even videos that explore the concept of recovery in mental health. What is recovery? How do you measure it? How can you tell if you have recovered or not? It’s a really interesting area, as surprisingly there are a number of different views…
This is a really interesting question that was posed to me a few weeks ago. I thought it would make a nice change to try and answer it via a podcast rather than a written article… Let me know you what you think.
image by lecasio Before I break into what I think are the good, the bad and the revolutionary aspects of the internet when it comes to mental health, I’d like to just take a moment to explain how it is that I come to be here today, talking about mental health and the internet. My…
A recent article in The Telegraph published shocking statistics released by Suffolk County Council highlighting the levels of stress and anxiety teachers in Suffolk experience. According to the article – The shocking classroom figures released by Suffolk County Council show stressed-out teachers took off the equivalent of 50 academic years in 2010. The remainder of…
There is a lot of talk about cuts these days and many people feel uncertain about the future, especially those who have been receiving social services. Many vulnerable people experiencing mental health issues are afraid that they won’t have access to the care that they need to support their recovery or maintain an acceptable standard…
Dopamine… The word dopamine has been cropping up all over the place for me over the last few years. When I first starting researching mental health in order to improve my own emotional wellbeing, the symptoms associated with irregular dopamine levels seemed to resonate with some of the symptoms I was experiencing. I have been…
