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All Blog Posts Tagged 'health' (18)

Solve your mental health problems: Grow another brain!

Those of us with mental health disabilities get fed up with our own brains sometimes. So I was pleased to find this solution on ebay. Grow another brain! Have a look… Continue

Added by Jill on December 15, 2009 at 11:54pm — 1 Comment

Pets are good for our mental health.

Here is my Dickens cat looking like he is posing for the picture and that butter wouldn't melt in his mouth! But he's not just a pretty face. According to research at the University of Chigago he is giving us stress reduction, companionship, affection, comfort, security and unconditional love. I'm not sure… Continue

Added by Jill on December 2, 2009 at 4:51am — 4 Comments

HAPPY 2nd BIRTHDAY CREATIVE CAFE Mandy Lawrence DAY 7 Winner of Cheer Up Competition

I couldn't let our Birthday Week go by without awarding Mandy Lawrence a Cheer Up Creative Cafe Competition prize. Not just this last year but since we opened Creative Cafe 2 years ago Mandy has been writing cheerful comments and befrie… Continue

Added by Jill on November 13, 2009 at 3:55am — No Comments

Laughter is the best medicine article.

Comedian Gareth Berliner tells the story about how laughter saved his life I think this article is pretty interesting. Is it true that laughing every day will keep the psychiatrist away? You can also click on the website link

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Added by Jill on October 30, 2009 at 4:52am — No Comments

Opening minds to power of music

Cheryl Frances-Hoad Thought this is a very interesting article about music and mental health: Opening minds to power of music As a concert exploring the benefits of music for people with mental health problems is staged in Cambridge tonight, Louise Martin talks to experts in both fields a… Continue

Added by Jill on October 5, 2009 at 12:46pm — No Comments

Are medications the only answer to mental health problems?

Photo:http://www.utsa.edu/today/images/graphics/brain.jpg I've decided to write a blog post maybe once a week or so on Mental Health Issues. After all we are set up and run by a small group with mental health and other disabilities,… Continue

Added by Jill on August 31, 2009 at 11:17pm — 1 Comment

Turn your Creative Thinking to Global Health Problems and Get a Grant for your Research from Bill Gates...

Recognizing that great ideas can come from anywhere and anyone, in 2008 the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched Grand Challenges Explorations, a $100 million program to encourage bolder and less conventional solutions to the problems of global health. Anyone with a bo… Continue

Added by Jill on May 12, 2009 at 11:11am — No Comments

Money and the Way things Are (Changing Away From)

Check our Google Group for Creativity Cafe out! Look into and add to our discussions about Creativity and the Healing Power of Art and Technology in the hands of Cultural Creatives. Participate in sharing your art and talents in Creativity Cafe Interactive Edtainments! Its all in your mind, why not make the best of it? Continue

Added by Creativity Cafe on April 23, 2009 at 11:59pm — No Comments

70% of Prison Inmates in the UK have mental health problems

The abolition of large asylums was supposed to bring an end to the mass institutionalisation of people with mental health problems, but a new report warns that thousands of people who should have benefited from reforms such as care in the community are instead left lan… Continue

Added by Jill on February 6, 2009 at 4:29am — 5 Comments

Elderly Road Trip

This was passed onto me by my mum who got it from an American friend. Thought it might make a few people smile, although I don't think this just applies to the elderly!! Elderly Road Trip (Remind you of anyone you know?) While on a road trip, an elderly couple stopped at a roadside restaurant for lunch. After finishing their meal, they left the restaurant, and resumed their trip. When leaving, the elderly woman unknowingly left her glasses on the table, and she didn't miss them until they… Continue

Added by Margaret Hamilton of Slackstitches on January 24, 2009 at 3:38pm — 1 Comment

New Year resolutions are 'bad for health', says charity

New Year resolutions are 'bad for health', says charity (Britain News.Net London, Jan 1) Experts have claimed what many people would love to hear -"New Year's resolutions are meant to be broken". According to a mental health charity, making self-improvement vows can o… Continue

Added by Jill on January 1, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Our Member Mandy Lawrence interviewed about Mental Health Blogging on BBC Radio 4 at 9.00pm UK time on 2nd December

Our Creative Cafe member Mandy Lawrence is one of the prominent bloggers interviewed in the programme on Radio 4 tomorrow night 9.00pm UK time. 21:00 All in the Mind 2 December 2008 Claudia Hammond presents the series exploring current developments in psychology and psychiatry and examines the rising popularity of mental health blogs. Two prominent bloggers explain why they think the blogosphere is proving to be so important in m… Continue

Added by Jill on December 2, 2008 at 3:30am — 16 Comments

Is this ecopolis "Lilypad" a city of the future?

This is a picture of "Lilypad" a prototype for an auto-sufficient amphibious city. The main deck has three marinas, the submarine performing arts center and the gardens of phytopurification. The three mountains are ecological niches, aquaculture fields and biologic corridor. Enti… Continue

Added by Jill on November 20, 2008 at 10:57am — 2 Comments

Do you have a mental health problem?

If you are concerned you have a mental health problem you can try these questionaires for further information. Go HERE Continue

Added by Jill on November 6, 2008 at 11:11am — No Comments

Scandal of children still being treated on adult mental health wards in the UK

Children 'still being treated on adult mental health wards' Hundreds of children are still being treated on adult mental health wards, two years after the practice was condemned as a "national scandal". Ministers pledged in 2006 that no youngsters would be kept on an adult war… Continue

Added by Jill on September 29, 2008 at 2:30am — 3 Comments

NHS art music and dance therapy for schizophrenia

While our very talented member Phil Lancaster does brilliant digital art like this to help with his mental health disability Government advisers are now expected to recommend art therapy on the NHS for people with schizophrenia. Phil's own explanation for the… Continue

Added by Jill on September 15, 2008 at 4:48pm — No Comments

Madness for the Rich!

Apparently the rich go mad (sorry I mean suffer from mental health disabilities...) as much as the rest of us but they go to some great lengths to hide the fact. The following article tells the story of helicopters and yachts transporting high flying bankers to an island retreat which costs £10,000 a week for secret treatment. Bankers Use Secret Clinics, Nurses to Beat Breakdowns By Thomas Penny July 11 (Bloomberg) -- On a private island 20 minutes by helicopter from central London, a hovercr… Continue

Added by Jill on July 25, 2008 at 12:41am — No Comments

Third Annual Bonkersfest is July 19th in Camberwell South London

Bonkersfest for everything bonkers is tomorrow 19th July 2008 in Camberwell Green, South London. Here is the publicity flyer:WELCOME TO THE THIRD ANNUAL BONKERSFEST! One Sandwich Short of a Picnic Fayre on the Camberwell Village Greene. BonkersFest! - what is it? BonkersFest! is a free annual one day summer arts and music festival, illuminating and celebrating madness, creativity, individuality and eccentricity; combating stigma and promoting good mental health - A day of bonkers celebrations f… Continue

Added by Jill on July 18, 2008 at 6:29pm — No Comments