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 →