TUESDAY: Part Two of our Stand Together, Stick Together #MHAW16 campaign: “Everyone has mental health”. Written by Mentality… Are we still connecting mental health with illness such as depression, OCD and anxiety disorder? People often believe that the phrase “mental health’’ means having a mental illness. However, this is not the case – in fact, everyone has […]
MONDAY: Part One of our Stand Together, Stick Together #MHAW16 campaign: “Anorexia does not have a gender”. Written by Mentality… Why is anorexia used as a term to describe a skinny white women? Anorexia is often thought of as affecting only women, as this is what it is often portrayed in the media. However, this is […]
Rob embarks on his mammoth trip to run a marathon up and around Everest today! We’re so grateful for what Rob is doing to fundraise for OTR, and we recorded a short video to express our gratitude and best wishes for the upcoming trip! GO ROB!
We worked with Envision, who went on to design and run a social enterprise competition among secondary schools and scout/brownie groups in Bristol. With the knowledge and skills we passed on, a group of students from St Mary Redcliffe & Temple School (SMRT) are putting together a campaign centring on building mental health resilience – exclusively […]
I first started seeking help for my mental health conditions as a teenager in the mid 2000s. Mental health then was not the ‘hot topic’ that it has become in recent years (although admittedly we still have a way to go even now). Very few people understood it, and even less wanted to take the […]
Post brought to you by OTR’s youth campaigning group, Mentality! Readers, we have a new challenge for you! You may be aware that last year The Mentality Project launched their campaign called My Mental Health is Not Adjective, or for short #NotAdjectives. The aim of the campaign is to encourage discussions around this question – is mental […]
We had so much fun today in Weston-Super-Mare abseiling to fundraise for OTR! Check out our gallery of pics! We estimate that today’s event at Uphill Quarry raised around £2,500 for OTR – which is an incredible amount, so thank you to everyone who donated to us! You can still do so at this link. […]
Abbey approached us to see if we’d say a few words on eating issues and their relationship with social media, and we gladly obliged. Her mini-documentary is part of a college course, and you can see our Clinical Director, Dr. Niklas Serning, sharing a few words on the subject in the video below. Congrats Abbey […]
Introducing Mind Aid, a new OTR workshop on dealing with difficult feelings. 6.30-8pm on Tuesdays, first session Tues 26th April – at The Island, right next to The Station.
Introducing HARM/LESS, a new OTR workshop on dealing with self harm. 6.30-8pm on Wednesdays, first session Weds 27th April – at The Island, right next to The Station.
O.B. came to us for some support and was kind enough to film this vlog afterwards – describing his feeling before, during and after speaking to us here at OTR. Check it out – and thank you so much to O.B. for taking the time to do this, unprompted – we hope you’re doing good!
For those that missed it, 4th February was Time to Talk Day, an effort to get people talking about mental health in everyday settings and ways in order to break down the stigma that undeniably still surrounds mental ill health. It’s not often though you get much analysis about what and where this stigma originates. Campaigns […]