Children’s Mental Health in the Digital Era
On the 8th February two members of the Well Pool blogging team attended a “meetup,” hosted by Tech4Good Liverpool in collaboration with Red Ninja http://www.redninja.co.uk/. The meeting was to discuss the problems surrounding the mental health of children and young people in the digital era. This being a week of events to highlight the importance…
Time to Talk Special: Living with BPD
Thanks so much to Jay for sending this great post about Living with Borderline Personality Disorder. I met Jay in one of my work venues and have been struck by the openness and creativity. It’s great to be able to share some of the art and craft work here. “I…
Facebook Group
It’s now even easier to join the conversation. To mark Time to Talk Day, we have set up a Facebook Group: Wellpool Blog Group It’s nice to welcome people there from across the globe. Please come and join us and join the conversation, exchange of ideas, feedback, suggestions about the…
Time to Talk Day
Well here we are already entering February, and this year the 1st February heralds ‘Time to Talk Day’ Although there is somewhat less stigma attached to mental illness than there was say 10 years ago, it still exists. Mental health care is still problematic, because it covers a range of…
Loneliness
This week, the government announced the appointment of Tracey Crouch as the new Minister for Loneliness. We spotted this article in which people give different perspectives on loneliness, so we decided to do the same within our group. Please let us know your views about the subject by commenting on…
New Year, New You.
Well, it’s already the second week in January! Can you believe it? I know I can’t. So hands up! Who’s already broken a new year resolution? Or maybe you didn’t even bother to make any. Either way, it doesn’t really matter because guess what dear reader? You are a work in…
Season’s Greetings from Well Pool!
The blogging team at Well Pool wish you a happy and safe holiday. However you are spending the time, we hope that it is peaceful. But this can be a difficult time as well. If you need support, you may find some help on our links page.
Good news for the end of the year
The Liverpool Mental Health Consortium were one of the local organisations that had a major cut in their funding this year. The charity is the organisation behind the annual mental health festival in October and Mad Pride that have been reported on WellPool previously. Great news is that they have…
Kindred Minds Christmas Social
A great day was enjoyed by the 27 people who attended the Kindred Minds Christmas Social on Monday. We held the event at the Metal Box social club due to lack of space at our office. Denise organised a lovely buffet, Will prepared a quiz, and the trustees all helped…
Liverpool Community Radio on FM
This is happening this week – some great community-based programmes. The shows will be available as podcasts soon (hopefully from next week).