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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...

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...

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...

Making Mistakes

It’s OK to Make Mistakes                     A Story about Risking a Little to Learn a Lot! Hi, I’m Max and I’m twelve years old. I find school really hard. My teachers say I need to take part in lessons. They tell my...

Easing into a major milestone: Retirement

You’ve been working for many years and now you are approaching retirement. You know people who have already retired and while some seem happier than others, you might be wondering how retirement will be for you. You might ask, ‘What will it take for me to be happy...

Cyberbullying

What is Cyberbullying? Cyberbullying is bullying which occurs through Information & Communication Technology (ICT). The devices used to cyberbully include mobile phones, instant messaging, chat rooms, e-mail, webcams, social networking sites and gaming sites. The...

Peer Pressure

Do I Fit In? A Story About Peer Pressure There goes the alarm again! I guess I should drag myself out of bed, but I really hate getting up for school! I’m always a bit scared about having to start school again after the long summer holidays. Form II! Still four full...

Myself

Nurturing My Self-Concept Who am I? What am I here for? Society tells me how I am supposed to be. As a fifteen-year-old girl, society states that I am supposed to be interested in boys, fashion and the way I look. It’s not so cool to be interested in getting good...

Helping others

It’s Not All About Me! A Story about Focusing Less on Myself and More on Others At sixteen I thought the world was mine and I believed that I could and would change it. Every time I switched the T.V. on I would hear about another racist killing, more wars and yet...

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...
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Me & Myself

Myself

Nurturing My Self-Concept Who am I? What am I here for? Society tells me how I am supposed to be. As a fifteen-year-old girl, society states that I...

Suicide

The last 2 years of my life have been terrible. Since my parents are separated and my mother decided to solve her problems with alcohol, I’m living...
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Dealing With Others

Peer Pressure

Do I Fit In? A Story About Peer Pressure There goes the alarm again! I guess I should drag myself out of bed, but I really hate getting up for...

Discrimination

What is discrimination? At its basis, discrimination refers to unjust treatment towards a person based upon the individual’s personal...
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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...

Volunteering

Do you have an altruistic attitude to life? Do you have an unselfish concern about the welfare of others? Do you feel that you could motivate...
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Internet Use Gaming Disorder

With the advancement of technology, games have also become increasingly complex – just take a look at virtual reality!  As games become more...

Neurology of the Brain

The Hindbrain The hindbrain includes the upper part of the spinal cord, the brain stem, and a wrinkled ballof tissue called the cerebellum. It is...
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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...

Laughing at yourself

It is important to be able to laugh at yourself, it just makes life more bearable!  It is being able to take things with a pinch of salt and...
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Dealing With Others

Bullying

Being Different A Story about Being Bullied When I was in primary school, I fit in well. I used to get invited to lots of parties and always had a...

Helping others

It’s Not All About Me! A Story about Focusing Less on Myself and More on Others At sixteen I thought the world was mine and I believed that I could...
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Relationships

Love, sex and relationship

I can’t get you out of my mind I can’t seem to get you out of my mind. The way you walk, the way you talk, the way your eyes shine. I can’t seem to...

Assertiveness

It’s not easy to say ‘no’ to something especially when everyone else is saying ‘yes’. Sometimes, it’s not easy to stand up for what you believe in....
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Homelessness

Homelessness in Malta may not appear to be as big of a problem as it really is. This is because we are not used to visibly seeing people sleeping on...

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...
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Substance Abuse

Drugs You may have heard people speak negatively about drugs, and thought to yourself that they were obviously not speaking about the drugs...

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...
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Me & Myself

Lonliness

Everyone gets lonely sometimes. Here are some stories of people who felt lonely. ———-Bertha, age 19: I often feel lonely when I feel far away from...

Making Mistakes

It’s OK to Make Mistakes                     A Story about Risking a Little to Learn a Lot! Hi,...
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Dealing With Others

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,...

Cyberbullying

What is Cyberbullying? Cyberbullying is bullying which occurs through Information & Communication Technology (ICT). The devices used to...
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Relationships

Assertiveness

It’s not easy to say ‘no’ to something especially when everyone else is saying ‘yes’. Sometimes, it’s not easy to stand up for what you believe in....

Toxic Relationships

What is a toxic relationship? Any relationship that makes one or both individuals involved feel unsupported, misunderstood, demeaned or attacked. A...
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Gender roles

What is gender? It is highly important that we first define the difference between gender and sex. Sex refers to the biological make-up of a person;...

Emotions

How often do you feel happy, sad, angry or scared?  These are just some of the many emotions we experience.  Emotions come to us in...
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Internet Use Gaming Disorder

With the advancement of technology, games have also become increasingly complex – just take a look at virtual reality!  As games become more...

Substance Abuse

Drugs You may have heard people speak negatively about drugs, and thought to yourself that they were obviously not speaking about the drugs...
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