The latest @ONS figs on suicide show a jump in young female suicides..I want to to picture my lovely, kind, compassionate 16 year old daughter Manon when you think about those figures 💔 #ForManon#SuicidePreventionMonth
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Listen to this brief podcast, ‘How to manage school anxiety’ developed by Hampshire CAMHS. Other podcasts, videos and resources can be found on the Hampshire CAMHS website https://t.co/gwCXtT51iD
Thanks to everyone who's donated to my JustGiving page so far. You've helped me become one of JustGiving's top 10 percent of fundraisers last month! You can see what I'm doing and why here: https://t.co/SdESXK0An4
Wow, 134kms over two days…what an amazing adventure! We are raising funds for @2wishcharity who support families through sudden and unexpected loss of children and young people 💔❤️🩹 My Darling Manon was in my head and heart 🪽
My friend Nicola Jones is fundraising for 2 Wish. Check out their @JustGiving page and please donate if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving https://t.co/ThZ0IMJ1oC
"When our genes were unable to store all the information necessary for our survival, we slowly invented the needed genes.
But then there came a time, perhaps ten thousand years ago, when there arose a need to know more than it was convenient for our brains to hold. And so we learned to store vast quantities of information outside our bodies.
We are the only species on the planet, at least as far as we know, that has invented a communal memory that is stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The place where this memory is kept is called a library.
A book is made from a tree. You give it a single glance, and you hear the voice of a person who may have been dead for a thousand years. Across millennia, the author speaks, quietly and clearly, directly into your head, personally to you.
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, for it binds together people who are citizens of different epochs and who have never known one another.
Books break the shackles of time; they are proof that humanity is capable of magic."
Carl Sagan,"Cosmos"
Today I offer a reminder of the word ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted from too much work. To be ‘foreswunk’ (my own version) is to be exhausted before you even begin.
If you feel like giving up, please remember the reason why you held on for so long. It may take bravery for you to talk and to ask for help, but please do it. Please hold on and you will make it through.
#WorldSuicidePreventionDay#WSPD25#SuicidePrevention
Today is World suicide prevention day.
Every 90 minutes, someone in the UK or Ireland dies by suicide. We can all make a difference by checking in on those around us.
Today is World Suicide Prevention Day
Suicide is the biggest killer of under-35s in the UK
Rates are the highest since 1999.
Suicide prevention is everyone’s responsibility
Take 30 minutes today to do the @Zer0Suicide training – it could save a life.
👉 https://t.co/XQqDfWmpEZ
Yesterday the @BatonOfHopeUK came to Cumbria
Andy walked alongside baton bearers in a moving day of remembrance & hope; he was honoured to carry the Baton in Whitehaven
👏 Huge thanks to Lisa & Jonny for making it possible
Bradford next
Together we can save lives. #BatonOfHope
Suicide prevention is coming into the school curriculum in England
Today @PAPYRUS_Charity launch free resources to help schools teach this vital subject safely & age-appropriately
Details 👉 https://t.co/aHx82l5K45
#SuicidePrevention#ThereIsAlwaysHope