Attitudes towards mental health have come a long way in recent years. Not so long ago, it was almost taboo to talk about things like anxiety, depression, and emotional distress, but in the modern era, these subjects are surfacing more and more often, with countless people finally feeling safe and comfortable in talking about the…
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Five Reasons Why Therapy Should Not be a Bad Word
Read moreAs mental health and self-care take centre stage at home and work, there still remains a painful and rather troublesome level of stigma around the term ‘therapy.’ If you’re considering therapy for yourself, working alongside someone who is undergoing therapy or are looking to understand a little more about why therapy shouldn’t be a bad…
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4 Mental Health Tips for Busy Parents
Read moreAs any parent knows, prioritising your mental health is challenging when you’re busy wrangling energetic kids and checking off your never-ending “to-do” list. But devoting time to self-care is an important facet of a balanced life. Taking care of yourself helps you stay patient and calm even when your kids are driving you bonkers and…
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4 Signs Of Ageing That Impact Men’s Mental Health
Read morePexels – CC0 Licence It’s a man’s world, so at least you don’t have to put up with the stuff that women and minorities do on a daily basis. This is true, but it doesn’t make your life any easier. According to statistics, males are the most affected by suicide, proving that men are at…
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10 Simple Things you can do Today to Improve Your Mental Wellbeing
Read moreMental illness not only involves depression and anxiety, but also your psychological and emotional health like how you deal with everyday challenges, what you feel about yourself, and other people, as well as your ability to deal with emotions. Before you seek treatment or professional help, there are simple things you can do to improve…
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The Connection Between Your Mental State and Physical Pain
Read moreIf you live a long life, then hopefully, you will be healthy for that whole time. If you ever do get sick or hurt, it will be relatively minor. However, that doesn’t happen for everyone. Some people become ill, or they sustain an injury, and they never fully recover from it. They’re in physical pain, whether…
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Mental Health & The Man Cave
Read moreTime. It’s an important little word. If you work and you have a family, then you may find that time is something you always seem to be lacking. However, it is a precious commodity, and it’s essential that we are using it correctly. Photo by cottonbro from Pexels Taking time for yourself to do the…
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[AD] Let’s Talk Erectile Dysfunction
Read moreThere are some subjects that even in 2020 men simply won’t discuss. One such taboo subject is erectile dysfunction. I understand that it’s hardly a subject you would bring up down the pub watching the football with your mates or at a dinner party, but many men struggle to even discuss it with their partner…
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[AD] How To Know When Have You Entered A ReBound Relationship
Read moreA relationship between two people will always start with you both of you wanting to spend every second of every day of the year together. This is perfectly normal, but sadly not all relationships will stand the test of time and many of them will fail for a number of reasons. Relationships or marriages are…
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[AD] The Benefits Of Online Marriage Counselling
Read moreWhen a marriage hits a rough and difficult time which happens to a lot of marriages. It can be very difficult for a husband and wife to fix the problems on their own. This is for the simple reason that it may start out as a sensible quiet conversation about each other’s concerns and grievances…
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[AD] Knowing When To Seek Online Help With Your Relationship
Read moreWhen you start out on the journey of meeting somebody new, those initial first moments together are, if truth be known, just perfect. Everything clicks for you as a couple. You have those times together where you are all loved up and quite honestly life is perfect. Of course this is entirely normal and it’s…
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[AD] Protecting Your Mental Health During Family Hardships
Read moreWhen things are good, they are great. But, this can make people complacent, and in relationships, it could be the first steps towards problems starting and then snowballing into something more serious. https://unsplash.com/photos/JOzv_pAkcMk You always want to think that your relationship is secure and will be the one to last, but as there are still…
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[AD] LockDown Has Made Me Realise My Home Needs Some Upgrading
Read moreWe are now four weeks into lockdown and this is without question a long time to be in your home with just one hour a day allocated for outside exercise. This makes you look around your surroundings within your home, which is definitely something I have done, and I have come to the conclusion that…
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Our 1st Week Living Under Lock Down In The UK
Read moreSo our first week of lock down is done. It’s been a surreal experience, and if I’m entirely honest it has been very difficult to get my head around how at times, our lives have changed so dramatically. It has affected how I sleep, which at the moment is very badly, waking on numerous occasions…
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Covid 19 The Reality Of Life Now
Read moreThis is the moment that the life we have been living will change forever. It will never quite feel the same again. How can it? Lock down in the UK is now here and it will be for a minimum of three weeks in order to curtail our movements. Things such as popping to the…
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[ad]Children and Mental Health: What to Know?
Read moreMental health is an issue for many people in the United States, and what we might not always realise as parents is that children can have mental health disorders as well as adults. For children, there may be situational events that trigger symptoms of a mental health disorder, or it may be ongoing. Regardless of…
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[ad] Getting Help With Your Mental And Physical Health
Read moreIn todays world with all of its pressures and how fast the world moves, people in general are under undue stress and the strains on everyday life can be become all very hard to deal with. Many of us have at different times during our lives suffered from many different issues with our mental health…
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Let’s Protect Our Children’s Mental Health Listening And Talking That’s All It Takes
Read moreIt’s children’s mental health week this week and there is no doubt that we need to highlight this important topic. The reason being is that mental health is without doubt still being brushed under the carpet. Even today the stigma surrounding mental health is still very much alive and kicking in the UK and that’s…
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[AD] How Gardening Can Help Your Mental Health
Read moreRegular readers of my blog will know that I have had a long standing issue with my mental health. In particular I’ve suffered from some severe bouts of depression throughout my life. It has always been difficult to find ways to lift my mood and simply just be able to cope with life on a…
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AD Making Sure Your Mental Health Is Ok After Becoming a Parent
Read moreThere are few things in life that without doubt most of us will feel under pressure and our mental health will be under pressure. It could be moving home or getting married, but there is no doubt that one if not the biggest change in our lives is when you become a parent and this…
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Lets Talk About My Mental Health But It’s So Difficult
Read moreIt was my birthday last Friday and it made me reflect upon my life and the last year. It is also just over two years ago that I had a stroke, and at that time it put so much in perspective of what’s important in life. What I didn’t realise is that over the last…
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