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Round-up of Mental Health news for the UK for the past week.
Depression
The issue of mental health and criminals is often in the media and the BBC news web site this week reported “the courts are making insufficient use of the main non-custodial sentence available for addressing mental health problems, according to a charity” [Mental health orders 'not [...]

Visiting the Charter for Compassion web site I thought what a great idea and posted about it on my blog. It was a no brainer really, surely everyone wants the world to be a more compassionate place and then it struck me… What is compassion anyway?

Just discovered the Charter for compassion web site and I am looking forward to visiting it again on the 12th of November to read some of the contributions.
“The Golden Rule requires that we use empathy — moral imagination — to put ourselves in others’ shoes. We should act toward them as we would want them [...]

Every now and then I have a thought and as the thought forms, I realize the truth of the thought. On one particular occasion I was at a retreat in Suffolk and standing by the pond when I thought how nice, quiet and peaceful it was.
No sooner had that thought arrived then I noticed a [...]

Over the years I have read many self-help books, articles and blogs about depression, anxiety, perfectionism and more recently mindfulness. People who know me consider me to be pretty knowledgeable on the subject of mental health but it’s been frustrating that I can use this knowledge to help others but still the mental health problems continue for myself.