Cognitive Harness

18/01/2025

Did you know that we are now nearly half way towards being a society where 50% of female 16-34 year olds are living with a diagnosable mental health condition?

One in nine people in Scotland reported having a mental health condition - more than double the figure for a decade ago.

26/02/2024

A document evidencing the mind-body connection as well as emphasizing the importance for seeking help with your mental health for the benefit of both mind and body.

When we think of mental health, it is often in an isolated capacity. As if mental health is only to do with the mind. On the contrary–the mind and the body are inextricably linked. The brain is the switchboard for the body, therefore when things are not going well in your mind, it sends signals to...

16/02/2024

Should Scottish local authorities get better mental health training so that they learn to speak to and treat people with mental health conditions in a more dignifying non-hostile way?

14/02/2024

Choose your friends very wisely. Friendships should encourage personal development by encouraging you and your friends to engage in activities that grow your knowledge, skills and experiences and don't stunt your personal development by keeping you in comfort zones that are detrimental to both physical and mental health; as well as, your future life prospects, due to the engaging in unhealthy habits and the cutting you off from new experiences.

Friends. We all have them, we all need them, and we can't imagine our lives without them. But for some people, making… by ayushjalan

12/02/2024

MENTAL REHEARSAL STUDY

Want to build confidence, start doing things on your own that you would have traditionally done with others such as a restaurant/nightclub/holiday, perform really well at that job interview, be able to confidently generate conversation with strangers, go on that blind date, confidently host a group session of some sort of description etc then come and increase your "people confidence" by clicking on link below

https://www.cognitiveharness.co.uk/index.asp?pageid=736044

12/02/2024

The biggest liberator in life is having the ability to be who you want to be, and share your true beliefs, values and opinions over any matter where you do not fear the negative evaluation of you by others. This will free you from approval seeking behaviour which will have transferable beneficial effects such as putting a stop to comparing yourself with others

Modern life conditions us to seek approval. Familiarising yourself with approval seeking behaviours helps you recognise your approval seeking and correct it

31/08/2023

Some of our most common, ingrained expressions have damaging effects on millions of people – and many of us don't know we're hurting others when we speak.

21/08/2023

Government thinking about elderly mental health simply because they see young people as having educational and vocational needs making elderly mental health cheaper to treat as far as they are concerned. This will always be the thinking of a right wing government. That is "economy before people". Money before mental and physical wellbeing. That's what they were made to believe during their formative years therefore the only answer to this is to boot them out of power and have them replaced with a left wing government. The question is: Is that a choice in our country i.e. "Right versus Left" or "Right versus weak & ineffectual".

Mental health charities say the government’s broken promise to produce a new strategy focused on mental health “risks letting down the one in four people in the UK impacted by mental illness”. Instead ministers plan to include mental health within a broader Major Conditions Strategy, along wit...

18/08/2023

Its time for action to accompany the bringing to everyone's attention that psychiatry has too strong a relationship with capitalism and that this results in the overlooking of social, political and economic sources of distress by blaming biology

Psychiatrist Joanna Moncrieff argues that we should abandon the medical model and focus instead on how the mental health system relates to capitalism. By Micah Ingle, MA

16/08/2023

We must abandon the concept that a person affected by a mental health condition are "Abnormal" when mental health professionals cannot define "Normality". Without an understanding of what normality is there can be no definition of "Abnormality" making any reference to a person with a mental health complaint as being abnormal to be very unscientific.

It is time to rethink "normal" and "abnormal."

07/08/2023

Does this article evidence the importance of psychiatrists at least having lived experience of the causes of mental health problems if not lived experience of the mental health problems they treat. Psychiatry lacks empathy and to make someone a psychiatrist before lived experience of the issues their clients have lived through is to put the "cart before the horse".

AT the time of writing this article, I am a trainee in my final year

22/07/2023

Austerity cuts made by Westminster Government have had huge impact on health of the nation including mental health which we know has a toll on cardiovascular and neurological health. Compromised mental health is compromised immunity, heart health and brain health.

Improvements in life expectancy have slowed in the UK since the early 2010s. A recent study argued there have been over 300,000 excess deaths during this period, when comparing trends in life expectancy with those from before 2011. The authors of the study argue this is a result of austerity policie...