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Edinburgh gym offers free membership to footballers experiencing homelessness

The hope is that this will people to maintain their physical and mental health in a cost free manner and will also battle bouts of social isolation that many Soccer Scotland members can experience.

Edinburgh Live

Glasgow cousins hiking in memory of their dads who took their own lives in mental health battle

Katie Cochrane and Caeley McClenaghan's life changed forever when they both lost their dad's following a mental health battle. They are now calling on men to speak about their feelings.

Glasgow Live

Nurse burnt out after year working in NHS now makes more money serving ice cream

Mailu Turner, who qualified as a mental health nurse in September 2021, has told how she quit her job in the NHS due to stress from the conditions and now earns more working in an ice cream parlour

Daily Mirror

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Farmers face a higher risk of suicide. The Texas Agriculture Department wants $500,000 a year to change that.

The department’s helpline is less than a year old. But advocates hope state lawmakers fully fund it as farmers and ranchers continue to face hard economic times and isolation.

The Texas Tribune

Social media's effects on teen mental health comes into focus

Experts are increasingly warning of a connection between social media use and mental health issues in children.

Axios

NFL culture shift on full display after Damar Hamlin collapse

The response by the league, players and coaches didn't happen in a vacuum.

Axios

Mental health research is making 'undeniable' progress. Why are we still in crisis?

SEATTLE — In Dr. Thomas Insel's new book about the mental health crisis in the U.S., he makes the stakes plain.

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Irish mother with newborn finds herself homeless after leaving hospital as she pleads for room

"This just makes me feel like the worst mum in the world. I have a history of mental health issues but I was doing so well"

Irish Mirror

School lawsuits over social media harm face tough legal road

Like the tobacco, oil, gun, opioid and vaping industries before them, the big U.S. social media companies are now facing lawsuits brought by public entities that seek to hold them accountable for a huge societal problem in the mental health crisis among youth

The Independent UK

Paedophile ex-special constable who sent explicit messages to girl while at work is going back to prison

“It appears he still needs some degree of support in relation to his mental health and emotional well-being.”

Manchester Evening News

Seattle School District Sues Google, Facebook, Snapchat, and TikTok for Causing Teen 'Mental Health Crisis'

It's hard to believe its arguments will hold up in court.

Reason

'There are days when I can’t get out of bed. My head just feels like it weighs 500 stone': One dad's mental health struggle

But Chris Phillips is hoping to help others in a similar situation through a new support group for men in Carmarthen

Wales Online

Background check missed deputy's red flags before killings

A background investigator erroneously failed to check a would-be trooper’s mental health history, allowing him to be hired for the Virginia State Police the year before he kidnapped a 15-year-old girl and killed three members of her family in California

The Independent UK

"It saved me last year" - Dunmurry man on life-saving Big Dander

"It saved me last year, it really did and I'm already looking forward to this year's one"

Belfast Live

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Daily Record

'Wonderful' medical student who took her own life sent final heartbreaking Snapchat to friend

Ava-Jane Der Merwe tragically passed away at the age of 21 in August, ahead of the anniversary of her father's death.

Daily Record

'Larger than life' mum found dead on Christmas Day leaves behind nine-year-old son

Jordan Carter was found dead in her home on December 25, before she was due to turn 29, after struggling with 'mental health issues for many years'.

Los Angeles Times

Why California's much-touted CARE Court is 'no one-and-done program'

LOS ANGELES — When Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the CARE Act into law in September, he set the clock on seven counties to have the program with its signature courts up and running by Oct. 1, 2023.

Tribune News Service

In Pennsylvania county jails, guards use pepper spray and stun guns to subdue people in mental crisis

When police arrived on the scene, they found Ishmail Thompson standing naked outside a hotel near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He had just punched a man. After his arrest, a mental health specialist at the county jail said Thompson should be sent to the hospital for psychiatric care.

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Salon

Violence problem in Pennsylvania jails

1 in 3 “use of force” incidents in Pennsylvania county jails involved someone in a mental health crisis

Daily Record

Lanarkshire Islamic centre group support the hungry and people with mental health issues

Friends of Airdrie and Coatbridge Islamic Centre handed out mobile phones and delivered more than 300 food parcels.

WEKU

Mental health professionals discuss ways to treat seasonal depression

Los Angeles Times

With pandemic and streaming boom, mental health support is coming to some film sets

LOS ANGELES — In summer 2021, when producer Joanna Laurie was planning production of "The Son," an upcoming drama from Oscar-winning writer and director Florian Zeller, she knew stress levels would be exponentially high for cast and crew. They had to contend with strict COVID-19 safety protocols and the movie's…

Daily Mirror

Vulnerable children kept waiting hundreds of days for mental health treatment

Liberal Democrat education spokesperson Munira Wilson branded the situation 'disgraceful' and said that children in dire need of help had been left to suffer

Tribune News Service

Confess Project uses barbershops to cut stigma of Black mental health

ATLANTA — Samuel Glickman was worried when one of his clients stopped coming in for his regular haircuts last year.

Manchester Evening News

'Wonderful, happy' student, 21, sent tragic Snapchat message before taking her own life

In August 2022, Ava-Jane's friend Jay Davies called 999 after she had sent him a message on Snapchat saying she had taken an overdose

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