YouthHealthTalk is part of a national charity that produces the award-winning website www.dipex.org. They told us:
On our young people’s site www.YouthHealthTalk.org you can watch, listen to or read interviews with young people about their experiences of health, illness and lifestyles and find reliable information about different health conditions and links to other websites, support groups, [...]

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Days Like This will give people across Scotland the chance to be a part of the nation’s history by writing about a special day in their life which made a strong impression on them. The project aims to gather thousands of extraordinary tales, from born-and-bred Scots to newly-arrived immigrants, from Moffat to Orkney.
To take part [...]

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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have launched an online “benefits adviser” service via the Directgov website. The new service is designed to give customers quicker information about their records, and their potential entitlements, by providing a signposting service on benefits that may be relevant to the customer’s circumstances. For more information see http://benefitsadviser.direct.gov.uk/

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A website called Lift Depression – The Human Givens Approach has been launched. The site aims to give depressed people information about the Human Givens Approach.  This approach takes the view that, when innate physical and emotional needs – the human givens – are met well, people cannot help but be mentally healthy.  The site aims [...]

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A  telephone counselling service called `Your Call’ has been launched by Lothian Council for Integrated Living (LCIL)  for disabled people from all over Scotland.  The `Your Call’ counsellors are all disabled people themselves, providing them with an understanding of what it means to live as a disabled person in Scotland.   The counsellors work as volunteers, and [...]

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Working overtime was associated with higher anxiety and depression scores among both men and women, particularly among workers on lower incomes and less-skilled workers, according to a Norwegian study published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.  Even moderate overtime hours appear to raise the risk of mental distress.
Bloomberg.com 15 June 2008

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The Scottish Government unveiled a £3 million plan to trial new methods of delivering cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) – a talking therapy which helps people understand their emotions and develop ways to cope at the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapists (BABCP)’s annual conference in Edinburgh last week.  
People with mild anxiety and depression in the Western [...]

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MTV has launched MTVi, a dedicated advice and support portal for young people.   It offers a safe place to find support and advice on the issues which effect young people such as mental health, drugs and violence.
http://www.mtvi.co.uk/

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A new study has found that rates of depression, which were thought to be increasing, are actually decreasing in Australia.  Several studies have also predicted that the global burden of depression will increase rapidly in the future so it is good news that in one country rates are declining.  Whether we will see the same in [...]

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A report by English charity, Rethink, has found that 9 out of 10 people with mental health problems do not go out or apply for jobs due to the stigma associated with mental ill health.  They feel most discriminated against by their family (36%), followed by their employers (35%), neighbours (31%) and friends (25%). 
The Guardian [...]

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