Leonardo Di Caprio at 4am. That was Sean. Sunkenly hansom like the sun behind a cloud. “I was earning pretty good money doing drug trails,” he said. “Somewhere in America?” “You mean somewhere in the Americas?” “Ah, sorry, you’re Canadian.” It was lunch time in Edinburgh, the Spanish waiters smiled at the tourists and poured […]
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Edinburgh had such clear air that day. So polished and focussed you could see the arm folds in the fat elbowed police right at the bottom of Grassmarket. You could see the smallest planes in the air above. A Canadian called Sean was teaching me ‘Suicide Chess’. The coffee was strong and the Spanish waiters
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Let’s use Social Media to help not hinder each other. The Battling Suicide Tour has come to an end after 40 towns and cities, and more than 65 days on the road! Let’s keep the conversation going. Please Join our Closed Facebook Group today, so we can talk openly about Mental Health, Suicide
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Words By: Hope Virgo Follow the Battling Suicide Tour and help us make a difference on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter ! Hope Virgo is the Author of Stand Tall Little Girl and a leading advocate for people with eating disorders. Described by Richard Mitchell, CEO of Sherwood Forest Hospital as “sharing a very powerful story with a huge impact”. Hope helps employers including
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Follow the Battling Suicide Tour and help us make a difference on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter ! Time chides when you’re living in a slum, and Hannah’s upbringing has been a slow one. She is telling me her story in a city in the middle of England. It’s been hot for weeks. The grass on the side of the roads
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Words By: Sam Vickery Anxiety is a p****. It’s something I’ve dealt with on and off since my early 20’s. It would usually just be the pit feeling in my stomach, yet sometimes this would crescendo with a top notch panic attack. However, through time I have learnt to control it as best I could.
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At 5asideCHESS we believe strongly in the art of conversation as a prevention and cure, short or long term, to poor mental health in all of its capacities. As part of our Handling Headspace Series, we asked three people to offer their best tips on dealing with Anxiety. Here is the first by a young
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Words By: Eddie Joah The writing of this article was heavily avoided until far too close to deadline. Ironically, the avoidance came strapped to the mother of all irony bombs. The writer was scared people with anxiety would consider it ill informed and generally crap. He was anxious about how anxious people would feel about
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See our Latest Schedule Here Sometimes the most obvious things in the world only become clear once we have experienced them for ourselves. “You’re still the same person, despite where you are.” “He’s no good for you.” “Marmite is only good with butter.” Love those facts or hate them, they are all things we only ever
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