Ellen Scott for Metro.co.uk writes about how hard it can be to engage in 'helpful' behaviours when you are dealing with mental health issues. It’s not that people with mental health issues don’t know they need to feed themselves and sleep. It’s that the depressed brain is pretty skilled at shutting out the caring voice in your head, and telling you you just don’t deserve even the basics of human care. Anything that gives you a little nudge, that shouts through the fog of depr

Donna Ferguson reports on the rise of student mental health problems for The Guardian. The Higher Education Statistics Agency recently revealed the number of students who drop out of university with mental health problems has more than trebled since 2009-10, with a record 1,180 university students with mental health problems abandoning their studies in 2014-15, the most recent year for which data was available. Please CLICK HERE for the full article in The Guardian #mentalhea