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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. "It's my overall mission now to positively impact as many people's lives as possible, so they don't fall into the same trap as I did and think that they can't get out of it," he said. Emily Fender set up her own support service during the pandemic after noticing an increase in young people asking for su...

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 people making a difference. 'I was struggling' image copyrightEmily image captionEmily Fender set up a...

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: “We’ve created the new role of director to provide even greater long-term career growth paths for o...

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, Wednesday's 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 previous year, is an opportunity for Aggies to get together to reminisce about their time at the school a...

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 later said: “It was eleven weeks between the time Jackie Robinson and I came into the majors. Eleve...