Mental Health Awareness Week: Move more for your mental health!

Folks of all ages are being inspired to maneuver extra for his or her psychological well being, as a part of this yr’s Psychological Well being Consciousness Week 2024.

The theme of this yr’s marketing campaign, from in the present day till Sunday 19 Could 2024, is “Motion: Shifting extra for our psychological well being”.

Psychological Well being Consciousness Week 2024

One of the vital essential issues you are able to do to assist defend your psychological well being is common motion. Shifting extra can improve your power, cut back stress and anxiousness, and increase your self-worth.

Step exterior and breathe

With this yr’s marketing campaign coinciding with Nationwide Strolling Month, there’s no higher time to step exterior and benefit from the wonderful Shropshire countryside.

Having fun with our inexperienced areas can actually help your psychological wellbeing, raise your temper, and assist cut back your threat of psychological well being issues. If it feels formidable to get exterior, strive going with a good friend or relative, or selecting someplace acquainted. There are additionally some nice recommendations on the Psychological Well being Basis web site that can assist you get began.

Shropshire’s Nice Outside has many particular landscapes together with the Shropshire Hills Space of Excellent Pure Magnificence, and plenty of promoted routes for strolling, biking and driving throughout the county, from The Shropshire Manner to Strolling with Offa.

You could find out extra about Shropshire’s Nice Outside, together with actions you possibly can participate in, on our Shropshire Nice Outside web site.

Cecilia Motley, Shropshire Council’s Cupboard member for grownup social care and public well being, stated:-

“We’re supporting this Psychological Well being Consciousness Week, to encourage everybody transferring extra for his or her psychological well being.

“Protecting emotionally nicely is simply as essential as preserving bodily nicely. Everybody can get the psychological well being advantages of transferring extra; it’s all about discovering what works for you.

“Psychological Well being Consciousness Week additionally is a good reminder to prioritise our emotional wellbeing and to look out for indicators that we, or different individuals we all know, need assistance. Taking small steps to take care of our psychological well being day-to-day will help to forestall issues escalating, and connecting with different individuals and with our wider communities will help with this.

“Our psychological well being and wellbeing pages on our web site have some actually helpful hyperlinks to companies that may assist when issues start to really feel tough.”

Feeling low or anxious? Attain out to somebody

There are numerous easy issues we will all do to take care of our psychological wellbeing. It’s additionally essential to be open about how we’re feeling and to achieve out for assist once we want it.

Shropshire’s Council’s psychological well being and wellbeing webpages supply a spread of help and instruments to help individuals’s psychological well being. These embrace:

• Psychological well being and wellbeing help in Shropshire useful resource pack – This new useful resource accommodates a lot of helpful native and nationwide contacts to help psychological well being and wellbeing together with supported employment, help for individuals with well being and social care wants, help for sexual abuse, help for household and unpaid carers and help for youngsters and younger individuals.
• Shropshire’s Social Prescribing programme – It is a non-medical programme designed to assist individuals with a variety of social, emotional, or sensible wants that helps them resolve their considerations at an early stage and put them again in control of their wellbeing.
• TogetherAll is a web based neighborhood for any Shropshire resident aged 16 and over, for people who find themselves careworn, anxious or feeling low. The service has an lively discussion board with round the clock help from skilled professionals. You’ll be able to discuss anonymously and confidentially to different members.
• Help for youngsters, younger individuals, and younger adults – there may be a variety of recommendation, data and help for youngsters and younger individuals. This contains NHS Shropshire, Telford Wrekin web site More healthy Collectively which provides recommendation for fogeys, younger individuals, and pregnant ladies, in addition to scientific sources to help healthcare professionals. Our kids’s Social Prescribing programme provides kids and younger individuals, aged 11 (at school 12 months 7) and above. a non-medical method to help for a spread of social, emotional, and sensible wants.
• Each Thoughts Issues– is a nationwide NHS marketing campaign stuffed with tailor-made suggestions and recommendation that can assist you handle stress, sleep higher, and increase your temper.

Stress and anxiousness about cash can have an effect on individuals’s psychological well being and wellbeing and, for plenty of individuals, this has been heightened by the rising value of dwelling in recent times. The council’s value of dwelling webpages supply a variety of recommendation and help to make sure you are maximising your earnings.

Pressing assist – Name NHS 111 choose psychological well being

For those who or any person you already know is in disaster and desires pressing psychological well being help now you can contact your native disaster service in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin by calling NHS 111 or visiting www.111.nhs.uk and choosing the psychological well being choice.