Ruth Cooper-Dickson I am often asked what it is like to live with anxiety and panic attacks. Those who know me well know that I am self-aware, I know how to look after myself and I do the right things to take care of me. As much as I have learned to live with the […]
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It’s Children’s Mental Health Week, so we want to highlight how some ways you can help your child’s mental health. Check out our booklet on Children’s Phobias and Anxieties. What should you look out for? To start with a persistent avoidance of certain situations or people. Signs of sudden laboured or fast breathing in reaction
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I felt like my mental health was irrelevant. I was made to feel like I was being a burden to the system. Quote from A BBC News Article on PIP from a claimant called Vicky. This shocking statement is the current state of our disabled person’s benefits system. We’ve heard this echoed by others that
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Caffeine is a psychoactive drug found in coffee, tea, chocolate, cola and energy drinks. The caffeine in these foods and drinks can have some positive effects. For example helping a person to stay awake or giving them a little energy boost so that they can continue on with their import work they are in the
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Anxiety in the workplace can be frightening, distressing and horrific. It for most is one of the worst places you can suffer from any time of acute time of anxiety or panic. Breaking down in front of others for a lot of people is also very hard. Even more so if you struggle with any
Today, the third Monday in January, is supposed to be one of the most depressed days of the year, Blue Monday. Currently trending on Twitter among other places. So why doesn’t anxiety and depression respect this? Because they’re an illness and don’t discriminate based on the day of the year. So No Panic is sharing
Half of all mental health problems have been established by the age of 14, rising to 75 per cent by age 24. One in ten children aged 5–16 has a diagnosable problem. On Tuesday 12th December Open forum Events held their Children and Young People’s Mental Health Conference. The day was good, there were 10
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The government has announced a new green paper that proposes to help young people in schools before they get worse. This comes at the same time they release the statistic that one in ten girls ages 16 or 17 were referred for specialist mental health services in england last year. Below are the main points
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The human race has evolved to deal with trauma and needs traumas to develop responses to dangerous situations. For example we know animals can be dangerous by dealing with the first trauma of seeing an animal attack a human and how that knowledge is passed down the generations. Sometimes however trauma can be overwhelming and
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World Mental Health Day is upon us once more, and this year’s theme is all about the workplace. The financial cost of mental illnesses in the UK is massive, as you can see from the figures in the above infographic, costing an estimated £70 billion annually in lost productivity, benefits, and health care. Such figures
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