18-24 May 2020 Mental Health
People are multidimensional. The whole person encompasses thoughts, feelings, and behaviours; thus, these areas of mental life comprise mental health. A good mental health definition includes how people think, how they feel, and what they do.
Life is complicated and full of ups, downs, pain, joy, twist, turns, setbacks, and triumphs; sometimes things go well, and sometimes they go poorly. Therefore, it's important that a definition of mental health have breathing room, space for fluctuations. Mental health isn't all-or-nothing. It's something that each and every one of us can define and take steps up the spectrum from poor mental health toward optimal mental health.
People are multidimensional. The whole person encompasses thoughts, feelings, and behaviours; thus, these areas of mental life comprise mental health. A good mental health definition includes how people think, how they feel, and what they do.
Life is complicated and full of ups, downs, pain, joy, twist, turns, setbacks, and triumphs; sometimes things go well, and sometimes they go poorly. Therefore, it's important that a definition of mental health have breathing room, space for fluctuations. Mental health isn't all-or-nothing. It's something that each and every one of us can define and take steps up the spectrum from poor mental health toward optimal mental health.
10 September 2020 World Suicide Prevention Day
Suicide has seen a dramatic rise in recent years, and organisations like the WHO, IASP, and WFMH have teamed up to put on various World Suicide Prevention Day events and campaigns in over 70 countries all around the world.
Suicide has seen a dramatic rise in recent years, and organisations like the WHO, IASP, and WFMH have teamed up to put on various World Suicide Prevention Day events and campaigns in over 70 countries all around the world.
World Autism Awareness Week 30 March - 5 April 2020
Autism is a lifelong developmental disability that affects how people perceive the world and interact with others. Autistic people see, hear and feel the world differently to other people. If you are autistic, you are autistic for life; autism is not an illness or disease and cannot be 'cured'. Often people feel being autistic is a fundamental aspect of their identity.
Autism is a lifelong developmental disability that affects how people perceive the world and interact with others. Autistic people see, hear and feel the world differently to other people. If you are autistic, you are autistic for life; autism is not an illness or disease and cannot be 'cured'. Often people feel being autistic is a fundamental aspect of their identity.
01 October 2020 National Breast Cancer Awareness
Breast cancer it’s a scary thought and all too many women assume that it won’t happen to them. Fact is though, every ten minutes a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK. So, don’t be ignorant, during breast cancer awareness month 2020 go for a medical checkup, it might save your life.
Breast cancer it’s a scary thought and all too many women assume that it won’t happen to them. Fact is though, every ten minutes a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK. So, don’t be ignorant, during breast cancer awareness month 2020 go for a medical checkup, it might save your life.
Dementia Awareness Week 20-26 May 2020
There are 850,000 people in the UK who are affected by dementia, and it does not just affect the elderly, 40,000 people in the UK under the age of 65 suffer from early onset dementia. It is believed that by 2051 the number of people who have dementia in the UK will have risen to 2 million.
There are 850,000 people in the UK who are affected by dementia, and it does not just affect the elderly, 40,000 people in the UK under the age of 65 suffer from early onset dementia. It is believed that by 2051 the number of people who have dementia in the UK will have risen to 2 million.
LGBT History Month 01-29 February 2020
Before the Stonewall riots, LGBTQ+ individuals had generally not broadcast their sexual orientation or identity, but the event galvanized the gay community and sparked greater political activism (see gay rights movement). In 1970, on the first anniversary of the riots, several hundred demonstrators marched along Greenwich Village’s Christopher Street, which runs past the Stonewall, in what many consider the first Gay Pride march (though other commemorations were also held that year). Early Gay Pride events (often called Freedom Day or Gay Liberation Day) were often sparsely attended and encountered protests, particularly because of the outlandish costumes that some marchers wore. In 1978 what is perhaps the most-recognised symbol of Gay Pride made its debut at the San Francisco event: the rainbow flag. The flag, with its eight colours (sexuality symbolised by hot pink, life by red, healing by orange, the Sun by yellow, nature by green, art by blue, harmony by indigo, and spirit by violet), was designed by San Francisco artist Gilbert Baker and has been adopted worldwide. The following year a six-colour flag, which is in common use today, appeared (with red, orange, yellow, green, blue [harmony replaced art as symbolised by blue in the flag], and purple/violet), partially because of the unavailability of some of the fabric colours.
Before the Stonewall riots, LGBTQ+ individuals had generally not broadcast their sexual orientation or identity, but the event galvanized the gay community and sparked greater political activism (see gay rights movement). In 1970, on the first anniversary of the riots, several hundred demonstrators marched along Greenwich Village’s Christopher Street, which runs past the Stonewall, in what many consider the first Gay Pride march (though other commemorations were also held that year). Early Gay Pride events (often called Freedom Day or Gay Liberation Day) were often sparsely attended and encountered protests, particularly because of the outlandish costumes that some marchers wore. In 1978 what is perhaps the most-recognised symbol of Gay Pride made its debut at the San Francisco event: the rainbow flag. The flag, with its eight colours (sexuality symbolised by hot pink, life by red, healing by orange, the Sun by yellow, nature by green, art by blue, harmony by indigo, and spirit by violet), was designed by San Francisco artist Gilbert Baker and has been adopted worldwide. The following year a six-colour flag, which is in common use today, appeared (with red, orange, yellow, green, blue [harmony replaced art as symbolised by blue in the flag], and purple/violet), partially because of the unavailability of some of the fabric colours.
Domestic Violence Awareness Month October 2020
We define domestic abuse as an incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive, threatening, degrading and violent behaviour, including sexual violence, in the majority of cases by a partner or ex-partner, but also by a family member or carer. It is very common. In the vast majority of cases it is experienced by women and is perpetrated by men.
We define domestic abuse as an incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive, threatening, degrading and violent behaviour, including sexual violence, in the majority of cases by a partner or ex-partner, but also by a family member or carer. It is very common. In the vast majority of cases it is experienced by women and is perpetrated by men.