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BBC News Mental Health Awareness Week: Swansea stories of support and advice Close When Ryan Stephens hit "rock bottom", he says he looked at it as a new base for him to start again. He trained to be a counsellor and worked with substance misusers to try to help them overcome their addictions. "Its my overall mission now to positively impact as many peoples lives as possible, so they dont fall into the same trap as I did and think that they cant get out of it," he said. Emily Fender set up her ...

BBC News By Ben Price media caption"Bad things that happen to us are only a weight or hinder to us if we choose to look at them that way" Some young people have taken it upon themselves to tackle poor mental health after seeing how badly people have been affected by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Figures show the proportion of adults showing symptoms of depression has almost doubled since the start of the pandemic. It is Mental Health Awareness Week 10 -16 May and here are a couple of the pe...

Research firm Nature makes promotions, adds new leadership team May 11, 2021 10:59 Strategic insights consultancy Nature has announced four promotions of executives to director roles, creating a new senior leadership team. The new leadership team consists of Emma Tommasini, Sharon Spargo, Adrian Compton-Cook and Nick Tucker, who will work closely with Nature’s partners on the company’s day-to-day operations, strategy and future direction. Chris Crook, Nature’s managing partner, said: “...

Reply Texas A&M former students will gather at Muster events across the country Wednesday to honor fellow Aggies who died in the previous year. The biggest of these gatherings will be on the College Station campus. (Getty Images/iStockphoto) MONTGOMERY COUNTY, TX — For Aggies in Montgomery County and throughout Texas, Wednesdays Muster will be a little more meaningful this year. Aggie Muster, held every year on April 21 to commemorate Texas A&M students and former students who died the previo...

Origin Baseball Hall-of-Famer Larry Doby was the first Black player in the American League, making his debut with the Cleveland Indians in July 1947, three months after Jackie Robinson had broken the color line in Major League Baseball by starting the season with the Brooklyn Dodgers of the National League. Although Robinson’s earlier entry into the big leagues somewhat eased the way for Doby to integrate the American League, the challenge and difficulties Doby faced were similar. As Doby l...

The Hampton Roads Chamber selected three businesses and three nonprofit organizations for its 2021 COVID-19 Business Resiliency Recognition virtual event on March 30.

Dudley overcomes slow start, downs Southeast Guilford 42-20 Tags: By Jacob Hancock, HighSchoolOT Reporter Dudleys football team may not have gotten off to the best of starts in Week 2, but the Panthers still looked comfortable in a 42-20 home win over Southeast Guilford on Friday. Leading the way for Dudley (2-0) was senior running back Milan Summers, who had 18 carries for 99 yards (5.5 yards per carry) and three rushing touchdowns along with five catches for 37 yards and a touchdown recep...

Suzanne Braxton Fullwood, Optima Health’s employee assistant program client executive, was the keynote speaker for the Hampton Roads Chamber's Power of Women virtual event on March 3 focused on emotional self-care.

West valley schools: Black high school, middle school groups unite to reflect, share Joan L. Boiko Responding to local Black students struggling with the recent violent activities at the U.S. Capitol a few weeks ago, advisors to the district’s Black Student Union and Junior Black Achievers groups brought members and guests together to reflect and share in a virtual platform last week. “Students were bothered by what they saw,” said Joi Cox, who has been coordinating the work being done ac...

Kiara Advani who jetted off to Maldives to ring in New Years' with Sidharth Malhotra, took to her Instagram handle to share some stunning pictures