[Music] Everyone and anyone has the ability to create and express themselves in writing. I think sometimes we focus too much on it has to be a good poem, or if not a poem, it could be a painting, a piece of art, a song – it has to be good. Actually, sometimes you can […]
[Music] Our mission is to remove the stigma around mental health within the workplace, but really, what we mean when we talk about this is that we want to normalize conversations around mental health throughout the workplace so that everybody can feel comfortable talking about their own mental health, asking questions about mental health, and […]
[Music] This interview could save someone’s life. I mean, that’s how important what we’re doing is. Sometimes we under look it or we undermine it, but it’s really that important. You never know. This could get shared on someone’s Instagram. Someone that’s about to harm theirself could see it. I could say something that could […]
[Music] Throughout the country, the RSPB will be running activities on their reserves. That could range from – We have a Baby Birds program here, which is for preschoolers, so mums and dads and toddlers come along. If the weather is good we’ll do outside activities with them like pond dipping, bug hunting. So there’s […]
[Music] Nordoff Robbins music therapists work with people of all ages and all kinds of life situations, so we work with really little toddlers with their parent. We work with children with developmental delay, and autism, and emotional behavioral difficulties. We work with people who have had head injuries and strokes, people who have cancer. […]
[Music] It’s not just the sufferers, you know? We’ve all got families, and it affects the family. It affects the workplace. It affects every aspect of your life. And OCD Action provide support and resources to everybody. We offer a helpline, so an email and phone helpline, which is a listening and information service. We […]
[Music] I’m running 230 kilometres through the Amazon rainforest of Peru. The actual event is called the Jungle Ultra, and I’m doing the event to raise money and awareness for OCD Action. Why do I take on these massive challenges? My answer is this. Number 1 – it gives my pain some kind of purpose. […]
[Music] What is happening, is that housing, who are the landlords, are not social-care trained, are not mental-health trained, have the onus of the problem because it’s their property, so they are, sort of, put in the position of reaching out to social services, reaching out to mental health services, and being told there’s nothing […]
[Music] People with OCD often do live with it in silence, and I lived with it for years and years without talking about it because I was too embarrassed about the things I was doing, you know, the behaviour I was doing were really strange, they were unusual. I didn’t think anybody else did them. […]
[Music] I remember mother going to some therapy sessions, and then them being cut, because the mental health funds got cut for Cheltenham, so four wards went down to one, and she just couldn’t get the help anymore. She was really let down. And that again is a mental health issue because you get into […]
