Vaccine Interactions

There is a possibility of interaction of meds and new Covid vaccine.. Drugs like anti psychotics can have interactions with ordinary things but no research seems to have happened yet. If you are supporting someone who wont look into this themselves – good thing to help look into. It may be nothing but unknown territory

The role of Love in Mental Health

Not really sure how these articles appear on my homepage browser – but this one makes lot of sense. You don’t know how important you are to someone – just being there – more And in in this crazy year – self love is important -look after yourself to be able to be strong for […]

Ordinary Courage

Big things happening and know clouds will always arrive, sooner or later – this is just about ideas/ways to cope and be happy in day to day way

Please don’t forget others who Care

As we reach such large figures of loss around the World – whichever night you clap for your N.H.S. around the World – please don’t forget the Carers and those they support and the familys often unpaid who are also overlooked Carers. Not just for the elderly but also younger people – facing other challenges […]

Children dealing with Anxiety – Updated

Advice from ‘Mind’ to support mental well being in children – if you are a child or a parent

Can employers be encouraged to allow dogs at some jobs or help with access to dog (animal) creches?

Has enough changed? ‘Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day’ John Grogan Important also to think about relaxing benefits of animals in the workplace. Not all employment lends itself to animals but many do and perhaps those […]

“If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be” – Maya Angelou

“Susceptibility to Mental Illness May Have Helped Humans Adapt Over the Millennia” -Dana G. Smith – Scientific American Nearly one in five Americans currently suffers from a mental illness, and roughly half of us will be diagnosed with one at some point in our lives. “Randolph Nesse, a professor of life sciences at Arizona State […]

Good hearing could be a benefit of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder

‘People who can make out a conversation in a crowded pub are more likely to hear voices in their heads and suffer mental health problems like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, a study suggests.’ report by Jeff Farrell of the Independent more Could it also be true they are more likely to be sea sick – […]

BT – Prejudice – is not ok

Our BT telephone line went dead last night – now almost a day ago and we registered the Fault and told it will take minimum two days for someone to come out and look into the reason why we are disconnected. Not sure if leaving you two days without a service – is normal any […]

Learn to think differently about yourself

“Medications are only a tool. Psychiatric medications are one tool among many other tools that you can use to recover. Physical exercise, eating well, avoiding alcohol and street drugs, love, solitude, art, nature, prayer, work, and a myriad of coping strategies are equally important to your recovery” “It takes a courageous human being to step […]

Henry’s Demons

‘Togethor, Patrick and Henry’s stories create one of the most compelling, nuanced and courageous portraits ever written about surviving mental illness’ The most painful part is adjusting and when you have managed to do this, you reallize you are very lucky.

The Painted Brain … interesting website

Ozymandias – M.Joy on The Painted Brain Ozymandias – Percy Bysshe Shelley I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold […]

Free Mental Health & Debt Help booklet 2015

“It’s Mental Health Awareness Week. 1 in 4 experience a mental health issue annually, and those who do are 6x more prone to debt crisis. The most important thing to understand is you’re not alone” Download & share 44-page Mental Health & Debt booklet (UK numbers but good advice) MoneySavingExpert.com weekly email

The Invisible Elephant

From Biopolar Whispers There is this elephant in the room, shes been there for years. She is an invisible elephant – no one can see her, but we all know she is there. She lives inside the walls of our home. She is in the air we breathe, she is in the foods we eat, […]

New mental health rights ‘proposed’ by minister Norman Lamb

Care Minister Norman Lamb said the changes would put people in charge of their care, and promote community support as an alternative to hospital. This means a lot – but hand in hand – real resources and funding need to be allocated in the community, to teams and GPs who hopefully work with mental health […]

Poverty Alliance

Thank you for passing by – Poverty Alliance It is very impressive to see how Cuba is reaching out – it doesn’t have to be about money, althou this helps, more about helping pull someone up when they are down

On transforming traumatic stress

Even on the periphery of someone else’s journey – you can get sucked in to traumatic stress, however much you try to keep calm. Someone sent me a link today to a book about recovering from traumatic stress. Time, talking, when you are ready and just being outside doing ordinary things seems to work for […]

Vitamin D – Could it stop modern diseases?

“An award-winning writer and scientist believes a deficiency of Vitamin D in pregnant women is behind the increase in conditions such as MS, diabetes, schizophrenia and asthma” Oliver Gillie – 2014/The Telegraph (to continue to read the article – you need to pay for a subscripton to the newspaper)

Gene variant linked to schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and alcoholism

Noticed this headline online – and although reallise it is important to be cautious and not get excited at the possibility that new research may lead to a breakthrough in the treatment of schizophrenia – nevertheless it is nice to have hope. Remember hearing and reading about the impact of glutamic acid, a neurotransmitter in […]