While depression, anxiety and stress can be debilitating for many, there are small steps you can take with your nutrition that will help to boost your mood. Nature’s own medicine; natural whole foods, play a huge role in helping to fuel our brains and our bodies. How? By increasing levels of serotonin, an important chemical … Continue reading Food to improve your mood
A friend once said to me: “Is depression like love? You don’t know what it is until you have it?” And yes, in that way (but probably not many others), depression is indeed like love. Until you’ve experienced it for yourself – until you’ve felt it – it’s hard to understand. Depression is often misunderstood. … Continue reading Depression: a mysterious and confusing enemy
We would all like to think that the world is a much more enlightened place than it was but there are still a number of taboo subjects that people don't like to talk about. One of these subjects tends to polarise opinion and can bring out the stigma that makes people unwilling to talk about … Continue reading Suicide & Redemption: World Suicide Prevention Day – 10 September 2016
The training blog has been updated along with the completed challenges and the photo gallery. The sponsorship total has continued to rise thanks to some more amazing donations and we're now over £3,300 including gift aid. The lovely folks at Local Giving are currently matching donations up to £10 so if you're thinking of donating, … Continue reading New Updates
Saturday 10 October is World Mental Health Day which is the annual global celebration of mental health education, awareness and advocacy. The theme for 2015 is dignity in mental health. I will be celebrating the day by taking on another one of the ‘Do It For Dan’ challenges in Nottingham. I will be tackling the … Continue reading The Struggle Within
They say that time flies when you’re having fun so I must have been having lots of fun with the fundraising for ‘Do It For Dan’ as the half way point in the year of challenges has just passed. I can’t believe how quickly it has passed and judging by that the year will be … Continue reading Halfway There
The lovely people at Blurt had asked everyone recently to say what depression looked like to them. Since I sent in my response I've been thinking about it and there are quite a few pictures that I could choose to show what depression looks like to me but when I was putting some pictures together … Continue reading What depression looks like to me
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