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Here's all you ever need to know about anything to do with mental health. We are regularly updating content that we think is helpful to you. Have a sift through and read some of the blogs as they offer guidance and useful tips to tackling various problems. They also keep you updated with movements that Keep Smilin are making in promoting health, happiness and wellbeing. Thanks for reading!
Christmas, coping with and enjoying the season!
December 20th, 2011
With the Christmas season fast approaching it is a good idea to be prepared. Not only with all your gifts, your tree and the festive album of the year, but also being prepared for your emotional health. Christmas time is a notoriously difficult period for sufferers of mental health issues. Some will find Christmas isolating, [...]
Posted in Depression, Eating Disorders, General, Self Help, Uncategorized On December 20th, 2011 by Nick | No Comments »
Young people & Self Harm
December 6th, 2011
We often hear the term self-harm and it wrongly has associations with ‘emo’s’ ‘goth’s’ and those who are seeking attention from others, when this couldn’t be further from the truth. I recently wrote an article for Mental Healthy on the huge rise of young people receiving medical treatment for self-harm and at the same time [...]
Posted in Uncategorized On December 6th, 2011 by Nick | No Comments »
Prevention is better than cure
October 25th, 2011
Well it’s 2am and I’m writing, mainly because I just had a really interesting conversation and it inspired something I think you should read (that and I am a little bit of a night owl). So today, at the peril of sounding like an old man, I wanted to bring up a time old saying [...]
Posted in Anxiety, Depression, General, Relationships, Self Help, Uncategorized On October 25th, 2011 by Nick | No Comments »
Making More Space for You! By Tara Stiles :)
October 24th, 2011
Tara Stiles explains why Yoga is great for helping us de-stress.
Posted in Anxiety, Relaxation, Self Help On October 24th, 2011 by adam | No Comments »
World Mental Health Day, Bullying – A major cause of problems
October 10th, 2011
So better late than never! Happy October Keep Smilin’ readers, September was a busy one, for the charities I work in and for me and October carries a special little day too. It’s the 10th of October which marks the yearly event of World Mental Health Day, you can check out the blog I wrote [...]
Posted in Depression, Self Help, Uncategorized On October 10th, 2011 by Nick | No Comments »
Where’s the help? Where do YOU turn?
August 22nd, 2011
Happy August Keep Smilin’ lovelies, I am sat in the sun while I write this, today I wanted to touch on a subject which has really hit a nerve this month, the random picture is me and one of my best friends, relevant how? Well read on! Where do we turn for help? Do you [...]
Posted in Anxiety, Depression, Eating Disorders, General, Self Help, Uncategorized On August 22nd, 2011 by Nick | No Comments »
Message on behalf of British Youth
August 9th, 2011
Since 2008, I’ve worked with approximately 3,000 British teens between the ages of 14 and 18 in schools and colleges throughout the country, as Gossip School (the Body Gossip self-esteem programme). From observing and speaking with them I understand the issues they face. I don’t envy the teenagers of today. They are invariably shown little [...]
Posted in Uncategorized On August 9th, 2011 by Natasha | No Comments »
Parents and negative body talk, does it affect the kids?
August 2nd, 2011
This week has seen yet another media storm surrounding eating disorders, this time, the media have been focusing on statistics about younger people, children and the rates of eating disorders in the age group. If you want to read more you can check out an article I wrote here. There were two common themes that [...]
Posted in Eating Disorders, Uncategorized On August 2nd, 2011 by Nick | 1 Comment »
