Where are you from/ where do you live? I am originally from Athens , Greece but I now live in heart-warming Glasgow. Why are you interested in wellbeing? Who is not interested in ameliorating his/her life? The thing is to understand that everything is manageable and changeable. I would like to reach out to others […]
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Anxiety as an adventure: watch @pmusttryharder at @TEDx
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 […]
The secret world of Glasgow’s sewers #100faces
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 […]
Meet our Community Correspondents: Paula McGuire @pmusttryharder
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 […]
The best decision I ever made was returning to uni as a mature student #bestdecision
A post from our Community Correspondent Emma Wilson @iamemmawilson Returning to University as a mature student was exactly the fresh start I needed At 25 I seem to be putting some amount of pressure on myself to be at a certain stage in life, and I’m not entirely sure what that may be. When […]
Puppy power: fighting depression with pet therapy
A post from @DrAlakbarov, our newest Community Correspondent A recent academic study by Miami University found that pet-owners had higher levels of self-esteem and conscientiousness than non pet-owners, tended to be less lonely and less fearful, and were more extrovert and less preoccupied. Furthermore, there was no evidence that people’s relationships with their pets came […]
Giving something back
A post from our Community Correspondent John Dane Fortunately, I am at a stage in my recovery where I am able to give something back. So, this week I found myself filling in forms to volunteer for a new project called Glasgow Action on Benefits. This week I start the first training course, which will […]
What’s the best decision you ever made? Our theme for autumn
It seems that summer is nearly over already and we’re looking at our Mind Waves theme for autumn. We want to know: what’s the best decision you ever made? It doesn’t have to be something major. It could even have been a bad decision that had a good outcome for your mental wellbeing. Here are […]
What a high: a civic reception for completing our sociology course
A post from our Community Correspondent John Dane I would like to tell you about a great day I had. Along with eleven other students, I just completed a sociology course and received a civic reception from Glasgow City Council. Our course, which was a joint venture by Queen Margaret University Edinburgh, GAMH and […]
Our clay self portraits from @GlasgowGoMA
This month for our Community Correspondent meeting we got out of the office and headed to Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art. We had a a tour of the galleries and saw some great art. Of course, there’s never a lack of opinions when the Mind Waves Community Correspondents are around, so there was also a […]