Happy New Year. How can it be 2016 already? But here we are. For our first theme of the year,we’re talking about food. It’s something that most of us can talk about all day. Let’s be clear. This isn’t about how we’d all be happier and healthier if we lived on alfalfa sprouts. We want […]
It’s that time of year again. There’s something particularly cruel about the weird combination of the pressure to become a new, better person and the complete lack of motivation that comes with two straight weeks of eating cheese and watching terrible movies. There’s lot of advice on mental wellbeing doing the rounds just now. Lists […]
Your suggestions for the best, funniest, feel-good films for christmas. [View the story “Christmas movies guaranteed to cheer you up” on Storify]
We spend a lot of time talking to people in and around Glasgow about what makes them happy, what makes them angry. It’s given us an overwhelmingly positive idea of what it means to be part of the city. So, it didn’t come as a surprise to see the “refuweegee” project. We are all aware […]
A post from our Community Correspondent Ann Marie Sharpe @hippychick1987 My dad is an amazing person: He is so intelligent, hard working, caring, kind, generous and loving. Although we don’t make small talk a lot, he has always been there to talk to and support me when its important, and I know he always will […]
December 10 is Human Rights Day: the anniversary of the adoption of the universal declaration on human rights. Nearly seven decades later, people with lived experience of mental health problems are still having to fight to have their human rights recognised. This year, in Scotland, we have an opportunity to contribute to an exciting means […]
Christmas can be great fun. But it can also be tough. It can be lonely. Many of us want to reach out and do something to help other people, to remember the real meaning of Christmas. With this in mind, we had planned to find a list of good volunteering opportunities around Glasgow over the […]
Sweaty palms, racing heart, dry mouth: this could be a description of the hero in an adventure story. Or it could be a list of the symptoms of anxiety. Our newest Community Correspondent Paula McGuire decided that the two can be the same thing. She lived with anxiety for over 20 years before she decided […]
Listen to Peter’s story As part of our workshop with @gillianlambie of @100facesvoices , our Community Correspondents recorded interesting stories about their lives. We love Peter Leckie’s story about the 30 years he spent working in Glasgow’s sewers. There is a whole world beneath our feet that most people don’t know anything about. Here, he […]
Where are you from? Where do you live? I’ve always lived in the east end of Glasgow; currently in Riddrie, where the average age is pensionable. Why are you interested in mental wellbeing? Having suffered social anxiety for twenty years, I decided in 2012 to make it suffer me instead. At the time, I was […]
