Author Archives: Stockport Mind

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A Mental Health Charity

Young people use drama to warn against loan sharks

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Stockport Mind

The following Youtube links are examples of drama projects supported by the Illegal Money Lending Team.  If your organisation has people who would be interested in doing something similar, the Illegal Money Lending Team can help out with training and venue costs.  … Continue reading →

Petition Against Benefit Cuts

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Stockport Mind

An E-Petition is available to urge the goverment to debate and review the cuts to benefits and services which are falling disproportionately on disabled people, their carers and families. The petition needs 100,000 signatures to be debated in parliament. If you … Continue reading →

Stockport Wellbeing Week

Posted on October 1, 2011 by Stockport Mind

5 WAYS TO WELLBEING  Connect… with the people around you. With family, friends, colleagues and neighbours. At home, work, school or in your local community. Think of these as the cornerstones of your life and invest time in developing them. … Continue reading →

Psychiatry over 6 decades – From a personal perspective

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Stockport Mind

Part 3 – the Eighties The eighties provided the fuel for my major explosion in the nineties, I had little or no contact with services but it was the decade which, with hindsight, could have alerted everyone, including me, of what … Continue reading →

Psychiatry over 6 decades – From a personal perspective

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Stockport Mind

Part 2 – The Seventies I had been at boarding school since I was eleven and had hated every minute of it until I reached seventeen in 1970, with hindsight I realised that I had been experiencing depression at various levels … Continue reading →

Psychiatry over 6 decades – From a personal perspective

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Stockport Mind

Part 1 – The Sixties I didn’t even know that I had visited a psychiatric ward at the age of eight (1961) until around thirty five years later, when my sister asked if I remembered visiting her at Friern Barnet … Continue reading →

Sport talks about mental health

Posted on April 2, 2011 by Stockport Mind

Cricketer Michael Yardy hit the headlines after his decision to return home from the England squad because he was experiencing depression. Mental ill health does not discriminate in who it affects. One in four of us experience a mental health problem, so why should sports professionals be immune? Continue reading →

Stressed workers turn to music to beat the work blues

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Stockport Mind

Whether they’re Going Underground, stuck in traffic on the Highway to Hell or taking the Soul Train, workers who listen to music during the morning commute are giving their mental health a boost. Figures released today by the mental health … Continue reading →