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The Learning Curve of Mental Health

My Brains Not Broken

When it comes to my mental health, one thing I can always count on is that it won’t be too long before I learn something new. Sometimes it’s a mental health or psychological term. After ten years of living with depression and anxiety, there’s still a lot to learn.

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Movement for Mental Health Awareness Week 2024: Feeling Safe In Your Body

MQ Mental Health

Mental Health Awareness Week is this year 13th to 19th May. For 2024 the theme is ‘Movement for Mental Health’. Movement can have a positive impact on mental wellness whether that be through running, some more gentle activity or even through fundraising for charities such as MQ Mental Health Research.

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What are the latest developments in research into depression?

MQ Mental Health

In this webinar, presented by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and hosted by MQ’s own Director of Research Partnerships and Development Emily Wheeler, we heard from some experts into what the latest developments have been in the area of depression research.

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What Is and Is Not a Psychological Treatment?

Society of Clinical Psychology

The Society of Clinical Psychology maintains a list of empirically supported treatments (ESTs), using a set of requirements colloquially referred to as the “Tolin criteria” (Tolin et al., Psychiatric medications, for example, might address psychological problems but are obviously not psychological treatments. in press).

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Mental Health Challenges of Being or Becoming a Mum

Prosper Health Collective

Maternal mental health looks at the psychological and emotional health of a mum, mum to be or trying mum from the fertility journey, through conception to birth and post birth adaptation to being a mum. Stages of Motherhood Mental health challenges can vary depending on the stage of motherhood that you are in.

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Breaking Down Mental Health Terms: What are Should Statements?

My Brains Not Broken

Over the years, I’ve learned a number of words, phrases and definitions that have helped me understand my own mental health. Some of these are connected to mental illness or medicine, while others are connected to mental wellness. What Can We Do About It?

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How Stress Can Affect Mental Health

MQ Mental Health

And then there’s psychological stress, which might be harder than the other stress types to notice and acknowledge. Psychological stress might be cumulative and ongoing, it might be pervasive and come from triggers both obvious or hidden. The decline of my mental health was unexpected, concerning and rapid.