Home Service Directory Emergency Contacts Advanced Search Feedback News NDCRT Projects Regular Events Events Volunteers Mental Health Info Partner Links Links Clubs & Societies Positive Approach Shop Martins The Gallery Creative Writing	Mental Health & Wellbeing Information New Mental Health Resource from the welcome Trust Click here for more information! NEW info on Genetics and mental health Click here for more information! Mental Health promotion and Information Click here for more information! Mental Health Foundation Dear Colleagues and Supporters I am writing to thank you for your support in 2008 and to tell you about our plans for 2009 – our diamond jubilee year. Next year we will be celebrating 60 years of ground-breaking work in mental health and learning disabilities. Compared to 1949 our sector looks very different today – the UK is now mercifully free of long-stay Victorian institutions and many of the shocking treatments that were commonplace back then. However, the prevalence of mental health problems and the stigma surrounding them means that there is still a lot of work for us to do. Click here for more information! Sports & Leisure Activity Programme What is SLAP?ContactSLAP is a pilot scheme being run by the Dorset Mental Health Forum. The project's overall objective is to establish ways of breaking down barriers that often prevent people suffering with mental health problems from participating in everyday sports and leisure activities. Click here for more information! Mental Health Recovery If you have first hand experience of mental health recovery. We need you! Click here for more information! BIPOLAR BOOKLET FOWARDED BY STEVEN FRY BOOKLET CAN BE FOUND ON THE BBC SITE Click here for more information! EDP Blandford 3A Market place and gillingham bungalow Queen street Do you, or some one you know, take drugs or drink a little to much at the weekend or through the week? We are here to help you. Click here for more information! New Innovative Health Centre A pioneering health centre is fusing conventional and complementary approachs Click here for more information! Alternative view of depresiion Click here for more information! Heart attacks and stroke advise Click here for more information! You are what you drink! Some topical advice now it is Summer...... There is a national campaign to encourage us to increase our fluid intake - more water is required! Nutritional therapist Matthew Clipson gives some advice. Click here for more information! An article from the Mind website The effectiveness of drug treatments for some mental health conditions is brought into question Click here for more information! Direct payments - arranging your own care and services What could you do with direct payments! Click here for more information! Nutrition and Mental Health Neurotransmitters in the brain can be affected by the foods we eat. The table below shows how. Click here for more information! Stress Free Life Ruth Doherty suggests ways in which to reduce stress. Click here for more information! Lipreading learn to lipread Click here for more information! Eight Tips To Avoid Back Pain Click here for more information! fit for the new year had to much christmas joy why not come to the boys school Sherborne for swimming group and get fit. Click here for more information! Social Inclusion An interpretation Click here for more information! Put Yourself First Some ideas to help expalin how giving should start with you Click here for more information! Coping Strategies for various conditions Some really interesting and useful coping strategies that maybe helpful in managing your mental health Click here for more information! Stress less, Relax more! Find out how important it is to do nothing - ideas to try even if you only have 10 minutes to spare Click here for more information! Countryside Recreation Network Click here for more information! Are you as daft as me? This is just a bit of fun but please let me know you if you got zero too ...................!!! Click here for more information! Alternative Medical Practitioners A List of Alternative Medical Practicioners in Shaftesbury and Surrounding areas. Click here for more information! Key Recovery Concept Click here for more information! Interesting example of the power of the brain Try this - it is very strange!! Click here for more information! New Hospital Super Bug A new Bug Has already killed in Kent Hospitals. Click here for more information! My First Day.. Click here for more information! mental health facts some facts on mental health Click here for more information! What are the effects of SAD ? (Don't forget to go to this months poll question) Click here for more information! Natural highs These are some things you may like to consider ....or try Click here for more information! An exercise programme to make you laugh! Did you know laughing is good for the diaphram and massages your internal organs? Read on to see if it works.... Click here for more information! Yoga and mental health Some thoughts about how yoga may improve mental health. Why not give it a try? Click here for more information! Complementary Clinic Wide range of complementary treatments available at Abbey View Medical Centre,Shaftesbury Click here for more information! Recognising a STROKE can you Can you tell if some one is having a stroke? no? Then read on it could save someones life Click here for more information! Fibromyalgia syndrome Do you suffer from FMA Then read on Click here for more information! Cannabis and mental health An interesting article from BBC Click here for more information! MIND, Mental health survey Click here for more information! Permitted Work and your benefits If you want to try some paid work while getting Incapacity Benefit, Severe Disablement Allowance, National Insurance Credits or Income Support because of illness or disability, then this is possible under the Permitted Work Rules. Click here for more information! New WHO Report "Depression is worse for your health than asthma or diabetes". "Treatment of mental illness is a necessity not a luxury". Click here for more information! Service Personel and Vets Agency This is Vetrans UK Click here for more information! Working and health Click here for more information! The Armed Forces christian union Pray with people serving around the world or in your own town. Click here for more information! Combat stress/PTSD Ex and service mental welfare society Click here for more information!