A new report by Agenda found that young women are being driven to self-harm as a result of poverty, debt and their struggles to pay household bills. The study also found that women aged 16-34 from low income backgrounds are five times more likely to harm themselves than those from the most well-off families. This […]
Hi I’m Kate and I have bipolar, emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). I developed PTSD from military service, a past domestic abuse relationship and a traumatic delivery with my daughter. I was diagnosed fairly late in life at 33, before I had been diagnosed with having agitated depression. My GP […]
A new study by the American Psychological Association has confirmed that helping others is good for people’s health and wellbeing. Previous studies have examined a potential link between prosocial behaviour and better physical and mental health. The study involving over 198,000 participants revealed that there is a modest association between prosocial behaviour and wellbeing. The […]
A new report suggests that parents not being able to get hold of childcare due to the pandemic restrictions, is harming their mental health and work life. Over 2000 parents were polled by Early Years Alliance, and half of these parents whose children were under the age of five said that the government had not […]
UK workers have lost about 862 million hours of productivity since the end of March when the country went into lock-down. It has been reported that the productivity is lost due to ‘video call fatigue’. It has been reported that workers spend 47 minutes preparing themselves both physically and mentally for video calls with colleagues. […]