Are you aware that the BAME community in the UK are the most likely to develop mental health issues and are the least likely to seek mainstream help? If you are from the BAME community this should strike a chord with you, as member of the BAME community it certainly does for me. It triggers the […]
Whether you represent an organisation consisting of a handful of people or thousands, it is important to have wellbeing policies in place. A lot of the time, especially in small organisations of 1-5 people, these polices may not be written on paper, but there will be activities staff will do together that have the same […]
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Generally the first thing when these 4 letters are mentioned we think of war, combat and war veterans. Of course one of the most common causes of PTSD is combat and we hear about its affect on soldiers all the time on the news. War’s however are fought on many fronts, […]
Poem by our amazing resident blogger Mackenzie Jerks. Dragging my feet all the way to my bed. I know I need sleep but I’d rather be busy instead. I close my eyes and my vision is red. My body knows what’s coming as my stomach fills with dread. Although I never intend for it to […]
As a nation, we are just about to come to what is for most of us a situation that is unprecedented. The lockdown was the closest thing the UK has come to what it would have been like to live in times of war. No socialising, food running out, unable to see family, people dying, […]
In 2010 when I had just finished my 3rd year at university and was on my summer holidays waiting to start my masters in September, I founded and launched London Hair and Beauty Ltd. During the work involved within in my bachelors, I accidentally stumbled up on a niche in the beauty industry I was […]
Hey you article reader, yes you! Can you tell me what Mental Health is without reading any further? When I did my MHFA instructor course this was asked, I had my version (non-Googled one) and everyone else has their versions.
Mental health, mental health, mental health!!! These days you seem to hear the phrase everywhere, as per my last article, COVID19 has done more to raise the awareness of mental health than any other factor in the last 10yrs! As the saying goes, better late than never! If there is a part of the human […]
Mental health has been for far too long a subject too taboo to discuss. Ruby Wax quoted this perfectly when she said “How come every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?” This truly is the case and that’s not just an opinion, let’s take a look at […]
