Mental Health

How to Care for a Depression Sufferer

By |March 11th, 2015|Mental Health|

Please share this brilliant and incisive video (watch it first though). It's loaded with practical advice and should be seen by as many people as possible (employers and schools please note). This is a useful resource for helping managers and others understand how to approach and support somebody suffering with depression (as 20% of us do!). Produced by writer and illustrator Matthew Johnstone, in collaboration with WHO, it is the follow up to I had a Black Dog, which I re-posted in February.

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The Logic of Depression

By |September 27th, 2014|Mental Health, Wellbeing|

We all get depressed occasionally. The ability to fall into a dark place, to withdraw from the world and to isolate ourselves in a private realm of despondency and gloom is a natural human characteristic, and at times a necessary one. But some people get stuck with it, while others don't It is best to ignore the Logic of Depression.

Bullying and Harassment and Workplace Climate

By |March 3rd, 2010|Mental Health, Work & Career|

In the minds of many senior executives bullying and harassment are problems that exist in other organisations but not their own. If they think about it at all, such matters are the province of the HR department. This being so, only rarely do they reach the ears of top management and never the boardroom agenda.

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