ALMOST half a million youngsters with worries about their feelings or behaviour suffer in silence, a charity says. But failure to seek help could endanger
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Tag: Mental Health and illness
Schools must teach kids to be happy not just how to pass exams, urges Who Cares Wins award winner Ben West
IMAGINE for a moment that more than 200 British children died every year because they did not wear seatbelts. This would be an enormous crisis.
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World Mental Health Day quotes and why we should be wearing yellow
WORLD Mental Health Day is on October 10 with an emphasis on “suicide prevention” this year. The day was first marked in 1992 as part
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Shell-shocked troops are being fobbed off with anti-depressants instead of getting the help they need
SHELL-shocked troops are fobbed off with anti-depressants instead of getting help they need, it was claimed. More than 22,000 servicemen and women were prescribed drugs
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I set up an Instagram profile to look at self-harm images – before trying to kill myself at 19
SNAPPING a picture and posting on Instagram is like a modern-day diary for many teenagers. But for 19-year-old Tee, from Northamptonshire, the images weren’t arty
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Bad moods to outbursts – the 9 warning signs your child has a mental health disorder
ONE in eight young people suffer with mental illness – some of them as young as two. Figures show that around 113,000 toddlers in England
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Dermot O’Leary talks mental health, marriage secrets and the new Celebrity X Factor
THOUGHT you’d seen it all and that the world couldn’t possibly get any weirder? Um… hello, X Factor 2019. Because this year will see the
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Prince William urges football fans to look after their mental health
PRINCE William has urged football fans to look after their mental health. A big-screen message from the royal played at Wembley before the Community Shield
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Scoffing chocolate helps slash the risk of depression by up to 70 per cent, studies show
SCOFFING chocolate helps slash the risk of depression by up to 70 per cent, studies show. It shows enjoying just over 100g a day —
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Media watchdog Ofcom proposes new rules to protect and properly care for reality TV stars
MEDIA watchdog Ofcom is proposing new safeguards to protect TV reality stars. The rules state that “due care must be taken over the welfare, well-being
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