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Our Wednesday afternoon Information Service will be closed on Weds 22nd Feb due to reduced staff numbers and will be re-open again on Weds 29th Feb 2pm - 4pm.

Warning - may be triggering

I’m sorry that there has been so long since my last blog. Life has been strange! I had a good Christmas despite all my reservations and things seemed to be going really well. I was so proud of the fact that although I’d had some times that would have driven me to self-harm in the past I was able to cope. Which makes the sudden downward plunge in mood all the more difficult to cope with?

"I can't be bothered"           "I don't want to go out"

We were really pleased to announce that we’d been awarded funding from the Edinburgh Change Innovation Fund for support towards our work with older people aged 65 plus and their carers in Edinburgh from April 2011. We’re really excited about benefiting from this new fund which will enable us to have a greater focus in providing support to this important group.

We'd like to thank everyone who was involved in this, it was a great night.

This took place on Thursday 9^th February at The Voodoo rooms, Edinburgh.

It was a unique one-off fundraising event that celebrated good music and up and up and coming talent on the Scottish music scene.

The Headliner was: North Atlantic Oscillation

Also featured: Music from talented soloists Nick Paterson and Steve Heron.

(Guys in the photos are Mark (from Action on Depression), Paul Brennan who writes for Celtic Quick News, and John McTaggart, who was one of the charity day organisers.)

Coming back from the New Year is always a busy time; trying to catch up with emails having arrived during the holidays and phone messages.  Imagine our surprise to read such a lovely email from someone who not only wants to volunteer with us, but felt that our website had provided much needed help and information.  She goes on to say..

The main aim of the study is to understand employees' experiences of psychological well-being at work and broader attitudes to mental health and employment. It is a study sponsored by the Scottish Mental Health Association and being conducted by Abigail Marks (HWU) and Wendy Loretto at Edinburgh University.

It is open to anyone in Scotland in paid employment.

Click HERE to take the survey

I can’t believe that it has been so long since I last blogged. I was just reading back over my last piece which brought back the hard time that I’d been having at work. That is mostly sorted now and the last few weeks at work have been better and I’m receiving more support.