by Raymond Sheehy | Dec 15, 2017 | Helping Others
Children in the UK are facing a mental health crisis. Last year alone over 50,000 children and young people contacted Childline seeking help for severe mental health problems, and the Children’s Commissioner estimates that as many as 800,000 children are...
by Raymond Sheehy | Dec 6, 2017 | About Bridge, Info for Commissioners, Mental Health Awareness
There are a lot of buzzwords regarding mental health recovery that are bandied around. Mental health and wellbeing has never been bigger in the national media with the Young Royals championing the cause with their hugely successful Heads Together campaign. However,...
by Raymond Sheehy | Oct 25, 2017 | Info for Commissioners, Mental Health Awareness
Mental health deserves global attention. Did you know that approximately one in four adults will experience a diagnosable mental illness during their lifetime? What’s more, mental health disorders don’t discriminate. Your race, religion, ethnicity, age and economic...
by Raymond Sheehy | Oct 10, 2017 | Helping Others, Mental Health Awareness
With World Mental Health Day happening today, we at Bridge want to highlight an area close to our hearts, one that has been getting a fair amount of press lately but deserves so much more. Mental health in the workplace is a pressing issue, with many individuals...
by Raymond Sheehy | Aug 1, 2017 | Self Help Info
All of us have to find our own ways of dealing with bereavement. One of mine was to start writing poetry. The first effort emerged about a year after my wife died. In it I tried to express the sadness I felt that she could no longer witness the beauty and the wonders...
