Working from home during Covid-19. Advice from Potential. Coronavirus (COVID19) requires that we work and study from home to limit the spread of the outbreak. How can you work and study from home effectively? This video provides 10 tips for things that you can do to help you be more productive and efficient while working […]
Category: Mental Health
Steps to take if you’re feeling lonely and depressed
If you have been feeling lonely and depressed, it is important to remember that this is something that you can overcome. You deserve to feel happy and fulfilled, and there are steps that you can take to get there. Within this blog, we will look at what you can do to address these feelings. We […]
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Tackling male suicide and self harm in Australia
Scaling up efforts to tackle male self harm: Men and boys account for 75 per cent of deaths from suicide, making them a key group for interventions, but an expanded national effort to prevent suicide demands that we have evidence of what actually works. Andrew Trounson of the University of Melbourne writing in Pursuit, discusses […]
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University Covid-19 Class of 2020 guidance
Thousands of young people across the country are preparing for that well-established rite of passage – heading to university for the start of the new academic year. Priory expert offers advice on becoming an undergraduate during a pandemic: COVID-19 has transformed life at university Experts say it risks heightening feelings of loneliness, depression Using alcohol […]
Alcohol related dementia: Vitamin B1 deficiency
A common consequence of chronically high alcohol consumption is a decline in cognitive function, which can even progress to full-blown dementia. However, we do not yet fully understand how alcohol damages the brain. A research group led by Stephan Listabarth from MedUni Vienna’s Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Division of Social Psychiatry, has now developed […]
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Do you have technostress?
As many of us continue to work from home during COVID-19, there’s increasing incidence of technostress and techno-overload among workers that needs to be addressed. While increased connectivity has saved millions of jobs during COVID-19 by allowing people to work safely at home, it has also exacerbated the pre-existing workplace problem of technostress. Technostress is defined […]
Youth Mental Health – Combined Minds App
The 7th September is Youth Mental Health Day #YMHD. This year (2020) is the first Youth Mental Health Awareness Day and will be focused on building resilience with the theme ‘Bounce Not Break’. The social media campaign focuses on sharing with young people ways they can build personal resilience by bouncing back from challenges. The […]
Back to school anxiety
https://youtu.be/IOmUBedGIGE Managing children’s fears around returning to school after coronavirus ‘lockdown’ : Dr Hayley van Zwanenberg, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at Priory Wellbeing Centre Oxford, has shared advice for parents on how to prepare their child emotionally for returning to school following on from the coronavirus lockdown. Advice for children in primary or junior school […]
Autism: Puberty and sexuality
I’m an enthusiastic patron and supporter of autism projects. But I’m also the mother of Giles who was profoundly autistic and challenging, lost the little speech he had at around 2½ years and never spoke again. I understand and admire the way parents cope with autistic children 24/7, despite stress levels which have been compared […]
Stress and anxiety: 19 proven ways to reduce it
Prolonged stress is bad for us. It raises our cortisol levels. Stress can manifest itself as a physical and mental health problem. Stress causes an increase in cortisol levels, which leaves us in a continual state of alertness, ready to jump into a fight, flight or fright response. This prolonged rise in cortisol levels is […]
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