Wellbeing

Wellbeing relates to our level of mood, and what we can do to keep it at a healthy level. Please find some tips & resources for better wellbeing below.

6 Ways to Wellness:

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Locality Manager, Highlands
My Experience of Caring for Someone with Schizophrenia

Lee cares for her son who lives with schizophrenia. She is keen to share her powerful personal story to illustrate the reality of caring for someone with serious mental illness and to increase awareness of the condition, which affects 1 in 100 of adults in their lifetime.
Practitioners (Suicide Bereavement Support) Highland
Employability Services Project Worker, Dumfries

Q&A Sessions

We're part of Clic, an online community for mental health support. Clic run regular live Q&As on a range of topics, featuring a panel of guest specialists.
Mental Health and Money Toolkit

The Mental Health and Money Toolkit is a resource to help you understand, manage and improve your mental and financial health.
Eating Disorders

Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses affecting people of all ages, genders, ethnicities and backgrounds. People with eating disorders use disordered eating behaviour as a way to cope with difficult situations or feelings.
Let’s get back to basics - Self-care week 2020

Our Digital Project Manager Lizzie has written a blog on self-care, and provided a handy checklist to help you keep on top of your wellbeing.
Language Matters - Mental Health Self-Awareness

Raising awareness of mental health is important, but it often starts with ourselves. You may be posting and sharing lots of helpful information, but have you checked in with yourself to see if you are applying these messages into the everyday language you use?
Mental Health for Young People

It's important to introduce children to mental health, so that they may start to understand their own emotions & be more understanding of others.
Mental Illnesses - The Truth

This website provides introductions to many mental illnesses, and looks to dispel common and harmful misconceptions surrounding them.
One in a Hundred

Video - One in a Hundred is based on a child’s perception within a family where a parent lives with schizophrenia.
Suicide

Suicide can be a hard thing to talk about. We hope that this guidance will help you to deal with either your own suicidal thoughts, or help you to support someone else who is suicidal.
Mental Health Awareness Week (18-24 May)

Hosted by the Mental Health Foundation, Mental Health Awareness Week 2020 will take place from Monday 18 to Sunday 24 May. The theme this year is Sleep.