International Women’s Day 2021
Today is #internationalwomensday2021 where the theme is ‘Choose to Challenge’.
A challenged world is an alert world.
Individually, we’re all responsible for our own thoughts and actions – all day, every day. We can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality.
We can all choose to seek out and celebrate women’s achievements. Collectively, we can all help create an inclusive world.
From challenge comes change, so let’s all Choose to Challenge.
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World Mental Health Day 2020
Our friend, Stef Thomas posted this on Facebook today. It’s two years ago since Stef “came out” (as he puts it) about his Mental Health.
This is a great post about the meaning of today.
Thank you, Stef.
Today is World Suicide Prevention Day – 10th September
The World Health Organization estimates that over 800,000 people take their own life each year – that’s one person every 40 seconds.
In 2018, in the UK and Republic of Ireland, more than 6,800 people died of suicide. Every life lost to suicide is a tragedy.
And we know that suicide is preventable, it’s not inevitable.
But not being okay is still widely stigmatised.
Here is a summary of the key facts and trends from suicides that occurred in the UK and Republic of Ireland in 2018.
Source: https://www.samaritans.org/about-samaritans/research-policy/suicide-facts-and-figures/
Key facts from 2018
In the UK & Republic of Ireland, there were 6,859 suicides in 2018.
In the UK, there were 6,507 suicides. In the Republic of Ireland, there were 352 suicides.
Deaths by suicide rose by 10.9% in the UK in 2018.
Men are three times as likely to die by suicide than women.
In the Republic of Ireland, the rate is four times higher among men than women.
Learn MoreMale suicide rate hits two-decade high in England and Wales
Worrying news out today….
The suicide rate for men in England and Wales in 2019 was the highest for two decades, official figures show.
Among men, the area with the highest rate was Yorkshire and the Humber at 20.6 per 100,000, followed by the south-west at 19.4. London recorded the lowest rate with 11.8.
The area with the highest female suicide rate was also Yorkshire and the Humber at 7.3 per 100,000, while the north-east had the lowest rate among women at 4.1.
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Worrying news out today…. The suicide rate for men in England and Wales in 2019 was the highest for two decades, official figures show.
Posted by withinu on Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Joyce on self-worth
Joyce is a counsellor with nearly 30 years experience. Here, she discusses self-worth.
Hannah discusses how she maintains her mental health.
Hannah works on the Support Desk at withinu. It’s Hannah’s job to ensure all Clients fully understand how the system works and to to assist with any technical issues Clients may have.
Hannah has no access to ANY client information. That is strictly only for the Client and the Counsellor.
Like us all, Hannah has a relationship with her mental health and here she shares some of the things she does to ensure she is maintaining her mental health.
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What’s Your Thinking Like?
We can be our own best friend, but we are more likely at times, to be our own worst enemy with the thoughts we have towards ourselves.
I think the key to this is to try and identify when your thinking is not positive, to yourself, to other people and to situations you may find yourself in.
It’s true that you start to believe what you tell yourself you are.
Tell yourself enough that you are:
- worthless
- useless
- a bad partner
- crap at your job
- a bad friend
- a bad person
- stupid
and guess what? You will end up that way.
Tell yourself that:
- you deserve to be happy
- you are a good person