
Childhood Mental Illness: How Parents can Spot Early Signs and Access Help
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...
Peer support is vital in mental health recovery
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...
Mental health initiatives from around the world
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...
Mental Health Awareness and Support in the Workplace
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...
Dealing with bereavement
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...
Strategies for Living with Bipolar disorder
Who am I? I’m Jude or Judith Critchley. I have a passion for life, for mental health for speaking out. I have a good life now. It can be variable depending on my stress levels. With Bipolar,...
How Partnership Working Impacts UK Holistic Support Programs
Our long-time supporters know us as a devoted follower of the methodology of partnership working. One of the main reasons for adopting partnership working is that it allows us to reach a greater...
Partnership Working in Health and Social Care: The Bridge Perspective
Bridge believes that a holistic approach to wellbeing is required for tackling the UK’s wildfire of chronic illnesses. As Dr Brock Chisholm, the first Director-General of the World Health...
Tools for Recovery from Mental Illness
Outside the usual gloom and crisis of global politics and war there seems to be a steady stream of talk in the media in the UK, and arguably around other Western nations, of the need for us to focus...
How a Holistic View of Health & Wellbeing Brightens the UK’s Future
Few, if any, modern-day healthcare professionals in the UK would refute the intimate link between depression and chronic physical illness. While scientific evidence to prove this multi-directional...

















