How do you feel after you spend extensive time on social media? Recent research underlines how the psychological effects are highly relative to the individual, and Facebook has acknowledged the detrimental effects as well as offering some new features to attempt to tackle them.
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For years, students across the country have been forced to look outside of the classroom to obtain crucial awareness and support over issues that affect their mental health every day.
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The idea that a single ‘type’ of employee is required for a business to thrive is simply not true. Imagine if you only had one type of way to play football, or one single way to play tennis. Some of the most innovative sports stars of the past century would never have defined our culture in the way they have, if their creativity had been ignored.
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A young entrepreneur from the West Midlands has been invited to speak alongside multi-millionaire business founders at the Peter Jones Foundation’s inaugural Festival of Enterprise, EntFest, on the 11th June, hosted by the University of Buckingham.
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An Awkward Hello. How many times have you bumped into an acquaintance during the day and muttered, ‘hello, how are you?', not because you are genuinely interested in their day, but because you are seeking to fill an awkward silence with a quintessentially British remark?
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It was all going so well. We know the feeling. Everything is going brilliantly at work, you’ve planned out your entire week and then, suddenly, a crisis comes crashing around your ears.
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Did you forget something? Business owners remember many things on a daily basis, such as their schedule for the day, the profits they would like to make for that month, and the exact time of an upcoming meeting with their accountant. However, one thing crucial to a companies’ growth is forgotten all too often. The health and wellbeing of its staff.
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According to the national charity Papyrus (2018), children as young as 9 years old are contacting helplines to discuss suicidal thoughts as a result of online bullying. Between 30% to 40% of 11-18-year olds are contacting the helpline 'hopeline' as they feel there is no escape.
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How did January transform into February, and then shoot into March, before somehow ending up in April? Many people get so caught up in work in the first quarter of the year that they forget about the most important aspect of their lives, their health. After some well earned rest over the Easter Bank Holiday, now is the perfect time to get healthy.
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Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training teaches participants how to recognise the early signs of stress and mental health problems and to respond appropriately. It’s about providing support rather than solutions.
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