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Organisers express 'delight' over success of third ever Perth and Kinross Mental Health and Wellbeing Festival dailyrecord.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailyrecord.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Perth and Kinross Mental Health and Wellbeing Festival returns to the Fair City this weekend dailyrecord.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailyrecord.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Roxanne Kerr with Communications and Events Officer Lindy Patterson. A new mental health and wellbeing festival will go ahead in Perth and Kinross this year amid a “mental health crisis” brought on by the pandemic. Set up last year, local charity Trauma Healing Together has organised the festival following a £9,100 grant from The National Lottery Community Fund. It will go ahead from August 9 to 15. The charity says the pandemic has had a “devastating” effect on people’s mental wellbeing, which will likely be long-lasting. Impact of Covid-19 Founder and trustee Roxanne Kerr said: “After almost a year of people living in isolation, we want to bring people together in an event which not only supports people struggling with the after-effects of Covid-19 but also promotes the fantastic work of other not-for-profit mental health organisations in the area.
Perth and Kinross wellbeing and crisis charities mark Mental Health Awareness Week 2021 The PA caught up with groups in the region that have been helping those struggling over the past 14 months From left, Sharon Thomas of The Lighthouse for Perth, Roxanne Kerr of Trauma Healing Together and Alex McClintock of Andys Man Club Perth Get the latest Scottish parenting news sent straight to your inbox each week with our newsletter.Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice.
Mental health groups accuse NHS Tayside of 'misrepresenting' support for new initiative thecourier.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thecourier.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Calls for change as study reveals one-in-five Taysiders use mental heath prescriptions Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Around one-in-five people in Tayside are prescribed medication for mental health issues, a new study has found. The findings, which are part of a blueprint aimed at building confidence in the area’s psychiatric services, has triggered calls for a new approach to anti-depressants. NHS Tayside is looking at ways of better signposting alternatives to prescription pills. The Tayside Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy reveals that of the 93,000 Taysiders currently using mental heath medication, about a third (26,508) are prescribed 12 or more a day.