"New research finds most bereaved people reject psychiatric grief diagnoses, viewing grief as a normal expression of love rather than mental 'illness.'" #MentalHealth #grief ARTICLE LINK:

⛄We're pleased the cold snap is over, and we can start thinking about the warmer weather ahead... Last year, volunteers at St George Colegate in Norwich decided to extend their winter warm space to a summer cool space for their community to connect, grow and learn together

You may think your antidepressants are fantastic and work great for a while. Then you start to feel different. The joy and pleasure is gone, despair and fear ramp up. That's psychiatric drug harm not a worsening illness. Try to come off? Withdrawal not relapse Lived experience

People in Greenland are wearing these hats and honestly… I’m stealing it. MAGA now officially stands for Make America Go Away. 🇬🇱🧢💀

Isn't trauma part of being human? Overcoming hardship, with support, can drive change. Erasing trauma might erase the impetus to fix things. Pain helps us correct our environment. #Resilience #TraumaRecovery

1 of many reasons why mental health apps for kids are dangerous: The more you focus on your "mental health" the worse you will feel. If you understand what this means you are steps ahead. Who knows what I am trying to convey?

If you wanted to create human suffering at scale, how would you do it? I mean really engineer it. Systematically. Across an entire civilization. Here is the recipe: Tell people their inner life is a malfunction. Their emotions are not signals. Their distress is not information.

Reindeer door knocker, Helsinki

#commercialism #streetart #helsink

Helsinki tram & beautiful street art.

Starting to post these out today. If you’d had a physical copy in the past but would rather a download link please let me know. I will post the download link here in a few days. If you’d like to donate to the charity, this year it is Inner Strength Support

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VG Foodstores, Oxford

Most people search for better mental health in pills or therapy rooms. But the deepest change often comes from rebuilding the basics: sleep, movement, food, connection, purpose, and values. That’s where healing really starts.

Community, purpose, and faith protect against despair. Loneliness is one of the strongest predictors of depression, while social connection, volunteering, and (for many) religious service attendance reduce risk. We’re wired for meaning and belonging.

Physical activity remains one of the most powerful antidepressants we have. Humans evolved to move. Studies consistently show regular exercise cuts depression risk by around 20%. And unlike a pill, it improves nearly every other system in your body.

“Privatisation was the experiment — and it’s failed. We have water companies pumping sewage into our rivers and charging us extra for the privilege.” Zack Polanski says it’s time to bring water back into public hands on #BBCPoliticsNorth.

@implausibleblog Zack Polanski, "I reject the idea that money is really tight". Absolutely. We are the 5/6 biggest economy in the world!! It’s not that money is tight - it’s just in the wrong places!

🏡 Explore how data-driven partnerships worked together to end homelessness for rough sleepers in Brent [19 Nov, online, free]. Register to join 👇 https://t.co/YGvXQLcoja

3 Days of the Condor isn’t just one of my favorite Robert Redford films ever- it’s one of my favorite films ever. Redford finds himself trapped in an espionage thriller that never lets up. If you haven’t seen this film, now is the time. Redford was a movie star in every sense.