When you feel a cold coming, what do you do? Wrap up warm, drink lots of fluids, maybe a hot water and lemon. Get plenty of rest, eat good food.
Are you 100% prepared for the fact that the cold is coming? Yes. Do you already have ideas for things that may help get you through that cold? Yes. Does it still make you feel drowsy and snotty and not in best health? Yes.
Mind's Senior Media Advisor Jenni Regan blogs on why Channel 4's 'Life on the Psych Ward did nothing to help challenge negative stereotypes of mental illness.
I watched the Channel 4 documentary ‘Life on the Psych Ward’ with excitement last night. I am a huge fan of what both the South London and Maudsley NHS and Channel 4 are doing to ‘lift the lid’ on mental health and was really interested in the idea that they were tackling the less appetising side of mental health: the forensic ward.
Lucy Spraggan's latest song, "Dear You", is a moving look at the issues of mental health problems and suicide that affect so many of us. Lucy spoke with Time to Change about her own experiences with mental illness, and the vital support she found in friends and family.
