Mental health: Understanding anxiety
At times, feelings of anxiety can become overwhelming and even debilitating. Experts share how you can understand anxiety and support mechanisms available.
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World Mental Health Day 2020: Mental health for all
World Mental Health Day highlights the importance of looking after our mental health, the support available and what needs to be done to provide support.
The importance of kindness
With fears a mental health crisis is on the horizon it’s time we spoke about the elephant in the room and took some time to be kind to our mental wellbeing.
Barber staff trained to recognise mental health problems
A Gloucester barber has trained all staff to spot mental health issues in clients in a bid to promote mental health awareness in men.
Kindness Matters this Mental Health Awareness Week
Kindness has never been more essential in these testing times, and this marks the topic of this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week.
Getting a good night’s sleep this Mental Health Awareness Week
This week (18 – 24 May) is Mental Health Awareness Week, as our sleep patterns change, your mental health can be impacted.
Enable Asks… Joanna Lumley
Lockdown is impacting us in many different ways, so, at Enable HQ we’ve launched Enable Asks: where we ask some familiar faces their experience of lockdown.
Managing your mental health
Now more than ever, it’s essential that we’re taking care of our mental health. With the world constantly changing around us, the impact on our mental health can be huge, but there’s always support available to you to ensure you can make a success of social isolation.
Enable revisits: Autism and mental health
In 2019, we shone a spotlight on the definition of autism under the Mental Health Act. Defined as a mental disorder under the act, many autistic people have faced detention and inappropriate care. We return to the issue, to uncover what has progressed in the last 12 months.
Reducing stigma and opening up this Time to Talk Day
Today (6 February) is Time to Talk Day, an opportunity to start an open discussion about mental health and listen to others. We look at how you can get talking and how to be a good listener this Time to Talk day.
Dedicated suicide bereavement support services announced
Today (27 October), the Department of Health and Social Care have announced the launch of dedicated suicide bereavement support across England.
Create your plan for good mental health with new platform Every Mind Matters
A new platform has launched today (7 October) to support mental health, improve wellbeing and support others. Every Mind Matters was developed by Public Health England (PHE) in partnership with the NHS.
#ThingsThatGiveMeAnxiety – How a trending hashtag has opened up the conversation about anxiety
The hashtag #ThingsThatGiveMeAnxiety has been trending on Twitter over the past 24 hours, raising awareness of anxiety and offering coping strategies to achieve positive mental health.
Mental health: Lifting the veil on body image issues
Being self-conscious about our bodies can lower self-esteem, confidence, and lead to mental health problems. This year, Mental Health Awareness Week (13–19 May) explores the topic of body image and how we think and feel about our bodies
Celebrating body positivity this Mental Health Awareness Week
This week (13-19 May) is Mental Health Awareness Week, when we raise awareness of the issues surrounding mental health, and try to break down the stigma around mental health issues.