Learn How to Build Resilience and Become Less Stressed

Learn How to Build Resilience and Become Less Stressed

Resilience is the ability to adapt to challenging circumstances without it taking too large an impact on our mental well-being. It has been shown that there are recognised steps that we can all take that can boost our ability to deal with pressure and reduce the...
PTSD – All About Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

PTSD – All About Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Anyone can experience Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from something distressing that they have seen, experienced or that has happened to someone close to them. Around 1 in 10 people in the UK are expected to experience PTSD in their lives and with the stigma...
Everything You Need to Know About Eating Disorders

Everything You Need to Know About Eating Disorders

  What is an eating disorder? An eating disorder occurs when someone develops an unhealthy attitude towards food, which can gradually take over their everyday life and, eventually, make them ill. In many cases, it is more about control than food itself and can...
Dramatic rise in incidence of eating disorders

Dramatic rise in incidence of eating disorders

The Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP) has published guidance, emergencies in eating disorders (MEED): guidance on recognition and management. This guidance is intended for healthcare practitioners to help them identify serious harms associated with eating...
How to help someone who you think is self-harming

How to help someone who you think is self-harming

  Self-harm encompasses a wide range of things people deliberately do to themselves to cause physical pain or damage. It is most common for people to cut the arms or the back of the legs. However it could involve burning, biting, hitting oneself, banging their...