"Some have tried to jump off the buildings, others try to hang themselves in the rooms, one tried to hurt himself in the kitchen, and one took too many pills"
Amir, on the unfolding mental health crisis at Wethersfield, where around 580 migrants are being housed at the 80-year-old site, where asylum seekers can be held for 6-9 months.
2024 gaming backlog, no.19 - You Used To Be Someone (PC)
Short interactive narrative exploring the author's depression. You don't do much other than aimlessly wander a town and muse, but that is the point after all. Wild art and perspective. A neat insight.
🏋🏽♂️My strength class at the Malden Senior Center strength class is bursting with amazing energy!
🤩These incredible members (ages 65-95!) are proving that age is just a number. They're having a blast, staying strong, and building a wonderful community together.
From the archives, 2022: ”We know now from decades of clinical practice, and now over the last couple of decades of research, that the earlier that we affirm someone, the better outcomes they have in terms of mental health and physical health.” https://www.texasobserver.org/healthcare-for-trans-kids-is-not-abuse/
After months of struggling to keep if with work, private projects and life at all, I’m finally enjoying my days again. Playing a lot of fun video games, keeping projects in the drawer and relaxing a lot.
Listen to your body and take a break when he needs it. 🍀 #mentalhealth#mentalhealthmatters
Kāpiti Coast's last psychiatrist quits, as government fails to keep funding promise
The National Party's election manifesto included a commitment to increasing the number of psychiatric registrar places to 50 a year, up from 37 - but there was nothing in the Budget.
Good time for a reminder that 988 in the United States is not safe for everyone. They engage in nonconsensual rescue, aka they will notify the police without permission and without notifying the caller.
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Mourners can now speak to an #AI version of the dead. But will that help with grief? Selina Sykes reports. FRANCE24's Monte Francis speaks to Tomasz Hollanek, Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge about the benefits, risks and future developments of AI clones. #death#bereavement#mentalhealth#tech
The recording of today's meditation class about taming the wandering mind, is now available through the Transformational Mediation Group on Telegram. - https://t.me/TMGmeditations/359
#Happiness is one of the strangest human #emotions, frustratingly elusive, totally ill-defined, and rarely achieved by pursuit. I’ve written a lot about it over the years, and still I’m not sure exactly how to even describe what it feels like to be happy, or to be unhappy for that matter.
Like anyone alive and breathing, I experience negative emotions on the regular. In fact, I was in a funk when I wrote this story. Yet...
👟Fun Fact: Did you know 25% of your bones are in your feet!
🗣️Many of you share my passion for promoting health and wellness. However, access to fitness resources isn't equal for everyone. Socioeconomic factors can create significant barriers.
▶️This short video showcases free, public healthy infrastructure that's accessible to all ages and abilities. Plus, I share more fun facts about physical activity!📚
Parents are increasingly taking their children out of school & home schooling them, with the most reported reason being the mental health of their children.
To some extent, the pandemic normalised the idea of children learning from home, so we might wonder whether the threshold for concern prompting a turn to home schooling has lowered.
But, it also suggests the impact on children of the myriad crisis that have engulfed school in recent years.