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Mental Health Awareness Week

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‘Bed rotting’ and doomscrolling among East of England’s top mental health coping habits

New Mental Health Foundation research shows more than half of people in the East of England are using unhealthy coping habits such as doomscrolling and ‘bed rotting’...
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Mental Health Awareness Week walks in and around Bedford

Mental Health Awareness Week begins today (Monday) and this year's theme is loneliness, which affects millions of UK residents. In Bedford, local groups will be holding several...
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Mental Health Awareness Week: the benefits of nature on mental health and wellbeing

Today (Monday), marks the launch of this year's Mental Health Awareness Week, dedicated to raising awareness of mental health in the UK. Now in its 21st year, the campaign...
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Sports reporter opens up about mental health: “The dark days are behind me”

Mental Health Awareness Week (18 -24 May), is an opportunity for all of us to think about a topic that has gained traction in recent years; our mental health. Mental health is...
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Health, finance and the future are most frequent coronavirus worries says Beds Wellbeing Service

As part of Mental Health Awareness Week (18 - 22 May), Bedfordshire Wellbeing Service have shared the biggest worries facing their service-users since...
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Be kind to others and yourself is Bedford’s Mental Health Awareness Week message

Mental Health Awareness Week launches this week and Bedford Borough Council is encouraging people to be kind to others and to themselves with this...
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Home care staff take on 280k steps challenge to raise funds during Mental Health Awareness Week

Home care staff at Brickhill's Class Care are taking on the task of walking 280,000 steps during Mental Health Awareness Week to fundraise for their...
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Beds Police back Mental Health Awareness Week

Mental Health Awareness Week (13 - 19 May) is being marked by Bedfordshire Police with series of events for staff and officers to highlight the amount of support that is available to them.
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