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What a difficult but wonderful task! Our members try to sum up Grow Mental Health in one word for World Mental Health Week 2021!
Hussain Manawer, a mental health campaigner, shares his own experience of depression.
At some point in your life you’ll probably be touched by male* suicide. It’s now the biggest killer of men under 45 in the UK with 12 men taking their own lives every day. In her challenging TEDx talk, Steph Slack shares her personal story of how losing her uncle to suicide caused her to …
We need to talk about male suicide | Steph Slack | TEDxFolkestone Read More »
The NYCI Youth Health Programme has created this video to highlight issues experienced by young men around mental health. In 2018 the National Youth Health Programme (NYHP) conducted a rapid needs assessment among the youth work sector in Ireland to investigate ‘Young Men’s Health’. From the assessment according to youth workers anger (88%), anxiety (86%) …
Ricky, aged 24, talks about going to Jigsaw for help with his mental health.
Can a smartphone add a new dimension to fostering mental health? Margaret Morris reveals how subjects successfully interacted with their phones throughout the day — mapping moods, charting physical responses and getting instant ideas on confronting situations — and rather than expressing concerns about privacy, they wanted to share their emotions with others.
Nearly 450 million people are affected by mental illness worldwide. In wealthy nations, just half receive appropriate care, but in developing countries, close to 90 percent go untreated because psychiatrists are in such short supply. Vikram Patel outlines a highly promising approach — training members of communities to give mental health interventions, empowering ordinary people …
Mental Health For All By Involving All | Vikram Patel | TedTalk Global 2012 Read More »
Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman, Professor and Chair of Psychiatry at Columbia University and past President of the American Psychiatric Association, envisions that breaking down the barrier which arises from our stigmatizing mental health would result in better treatment for millions of individuals. Jeffrey Lieberman has devoted his life to the study and treatment of mental illness. …
