Inform Yourself

Friends and Making Friends

For a few seconds go back to your childhood and think about your first days in school. Those days of dread when you were ripped off from your summer freedom and made to sit down for hours on end in a hot, stuffy classroom. Now think of the fun part of those days. It’s...

Professional Support

With each day we constantly process and develop social skills and emotional experiences as we try to lead happy, healthy lives.  Sometimes our own experiences and behaviour interfere with our ability to remain happy and at ease and sadness overwhelms our mental...

Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle

A state of well-being Young people are trying to deal with different situations and new challenges in their lives. They may experience problems at school, relationships with friends, changing circumstances that can happen with the family, learning disabilities, such...

Self-Harm

What is Self-Harm? Self-harm is not a mental health illness itself, however, in most cases, it occurs with mental illnesses like borderline personality disorder, depression, eating disorders, anxiety or post-traumatic stress disorder.  Individuals who have experienced...

Physically Active

Physical Exercise – by Peter aged 16 I am an exercise freak; I just can’t get enough of it.  I am not sure what it is about exercise but I know that it makes me feel really good.  I feel strong, I feel fit and I feel healthy and it somehow fills me with...

Hate speech

What is hate speech? Hate Speech is best described as speech that attacks, threatens, or insults a person or group on the basis of national origin, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability. Hate speech goes beyond simply...

Depression

What is ‘depression’? Depression is a mental health difficulty that affects how a person feels, thinks and acts.  It causes feelings of sadness and/or a loss of interest in activities that used to give pleasure and may impact a person’s functioning at home and at...

Sexual Assault, Rape and Consent

Claire and Mike are both 16 years old and have been dating for two months now. It is Claire’s first relationship and she feels very lucky to have found Mark as he has been a very caring boyfriend and he frequently buys her gifts. Recently, however, Mark started to be...

Note to self-care…

I feel suffocated, emotionless and my world crumbling around me. For this reason, I’m trying to inhale a large breath in and exhale another out after a stressful day or was it not so stressful after all? I’m thinking to myself, what was my day like.. not so bad in...

Let’s talk about stress

I am feeling so run down. At home, my parents are constantly fighting and I often get caught in the middle of their arguments. At school, I carry my worries with me and this makes it difficult for me to concentrate during class. Exam time is coming up soon, and I’m...

Me & Myself

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Me & Myself

Dealing With Others

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Around Me

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Me & Myself

Dealing With Others

Relationships

Around Me

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