Category: Mental Health
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Stress and resilience
What is stress? You’re having a bad week. You’ve got a to do list that just keeps getting longer, it feels like everyone needs you for something and you’re worried about how you’re going to pay the electricity bill this month… Stress is a natural part of the body’s defence…
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The story of Alex and Brandon – how basic training saved a life
Alex Alex, aged 30, is a member of TAARC – Telford African & Afro-Caribbean Resource Centre – and is one of the charity’s Trustees. In October 2022, as part of a Health Inequalities Funded (HIF) project with Telford &Wrekin Council’s Public Health, Alex took part in an Applied Suicide Intervention…
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A Letter of Hope
This Letter of Hope was written by people from Telford, who wish to offer help and hope to those who are thinking about suicide.
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Navigating anxiety: simple practical tips to improve how you feel
Anxiety can be hard be hard to deal with. But there are some things we can do to manage these tough feelings.
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Talking about mental health: why it’s important and how to do it
Talking about mental health is vital for us all. By making time to talk and listen we can reduce the stigma and improve our mental health.
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How to beat the January Blues
After the excitement and bustle of the Christmas season, it is completely natural to feel a little down at this time of the year.
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Feeling lonely? These seven tips can help
There are a number of quick and practical things we can do to feel less lonely and to improve how we feel.
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How learning something new improves how you feel
Taking the time to learning something new will make you happier. But you don’t need to make a big commitment. Here’s some ideas to try.
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Five proven ways to improve how you feel by connecting with others
Connecting with others is important. We can all do simple things to be a little more social and help those in our lives do the same.
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The secret to beating dissatisfaction
Struggling with dissatisfaction from time to time? Modern life can leave us feeling dissatisfied often. Here is what you can do about it.
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How to use mindfulness to improve your wellbeing
Mindfulness can improve how we feel by helping us to concentrate on being in the moment rather than worrying about the past or future.
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Improve your wellbeing and others’ too, by giving
Here are four ideas on how you can make giving a regular part of your life and improve how you feel.
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How social media affects wellbeing
Social media can have a massive effect on our wellbeing and how we feel without us even noticing. Here is how and what you can do about it.
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Pulling together: How Telford & Wrekin Council and residents are responding to the Covid-19 pandemic
There are a number of practical things we can do to feel less lonely and to improve our mood.
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Coronavirus: 5 tips to look after your mental health in a lockdown
Coronavirus and lockdowns will strain everybody’s mental health. Here are five simple things we can all do to help lighten our moods.
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Suicidal thoughts: what to do if you, or someone you know, is having them
If you are having suicidal thoughts then pick up the phone, you are not alone. Support is available for people across Telford and Wrekin.
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Seven different stories about loneliness in Telford and Wrekin
People think that social isolation is problem that affects older people, but the truth is that loneliness is something that anybody can experience.
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25 ideas to be kind for Mental Health Awareness Week
In a time of social distancing small acts of kindness can help us all to connect with others emotionally during the pandemic.
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Take control of your mental health – ‘Every Mind Matters’
We can all take simple steps to look after our Mental Health with the right support.
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The need to end the stigma around male suicide in Telford
Each week 84 men take their own lives in the UK.
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20 minutes of your time could save a life
We all need to make it our business to know how to help someone with suicidal thoughts, as Lisa Richards explains.
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How a short 20 minute course saved a person’s life
A short online course from the Zero Suicide Alliance saved a women’s on one dark winter night, as Mark Reilly from West Mercia Police explains.
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How to stay healthy this Christmas (and still have fun!)
By Jennifer Davies, Public Health Practitioner Christmas is the time of year when many of our Public Health messages go out the window. Not many people want to hear that they shouldn’t have more than a couple of glasses of wine or that pigs in blankets and bacon sarnies are…
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How do you know when its time to seek help for your mental health?
It might be your low mood is normal response to a difficult time, or it could be something that you need to talk to our GP about.
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New LGBT+ peer support group set up in Telford
A local volunteer is looking to make Telford a more friendly place to be for LGBT+ people with a new peer support group
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What is ‘good mental wellbeing?’
Good mental wellbeing can mean different things to different people. Here’s what we think it is – and how you can achieve it.
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Mental wellbeing: five ways to improve it
Advice on how to care of our physical health is everywhere, but not so for mental health. Fortunately, the Five Ways to Wellbeing are here to help.
