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]
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 […]
There’s a popular myth, in every public service from nurseries to psychiatric hospitals, that it’s against the rules for staff to hug the people they support. It’s one of those things that makes for a good story, but this excellent piece from Anna Fowlie of the Scottish Social Service Council dispels it. Of course, touching […]
It’s quite a question: what’s the best decision you’ve ever made? We asked as our theme for autumn and we certainly weren’t disappointed by the answers from our Community Correspondents. Some were big life changes, like quitting your job to travel the world, others were more personal, like deciding to be honest about how you […]
You might remember, back in May, we told you about “My Wellbeing, My Future”, a competition run by the Health and Social Care Academy to find the best examples of creativity around health. Well, the winners were chosen back in August and their entries will make a significant contribution to the Scottish Government’s update to […]
