First Aid for Mental Health - Greece

03/12/2024

First Aid for Mental Health takes suicidality seriously 🧡

15/03/2023

Your experience is valid 💚

Examples of how trauma can occur.
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Image via selfloverainbow on IG

10/03/2022

FAMH supports trauma-informed responses to people in all forms of need and distress.

psychologytools.com has produced Ukrainian language guidance for people going through, or suffering the after-effects of, trauma.

It's free and available here: https://www.psychologytools.com/articles/free-ukrainian-translations-of-trauma-and-ptsd-psychoeducational-resources/

Thank you for sharing - and thank you psychologytools.com!

The people of Ukraine will have many needs in the coming months and years. The most pressing priority at this stage of the emerging catastrophe is to ensure physical safety and to meet other basic needs such as food, shelter, and access to medicines.

20/10/2021

Living with someone with depression?
Here is how you can help:
💙 Talk to them and offer your support
💙 Encourage them to seek professional help
💙 Help them with everyday activities
💙 Encourage regular eating, sleeping and exercise
💙 Encourage them to focus on the positive, rather than the negative
💙 Be patient - recovery can take time

𝘐𝘯 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘵𝘰𝘰. 💙

06/08/2021

Please be compassionate and supportive with yourself and others at this difficult time in Greece.

Understand that at times of threat the body goes into survival mode - putting us on high alert, narrowing our focus and raising our anxiety levels. This is a perfectly normal and natural response to what's happening around us.

People more directly affected by the fires may experience trauma. Afterwards, when the time is right, they will need opportunities to talk and be heard.

But everyone needs sensitive treatment just now. Especially you 💚.

“Will the fires and floods finally awaken us, turn our attention back to the living Earth? Or have we lost that connection, that place of belonging?” Sufi master Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee looks at—and beyond—the approaching flames. https://parabola.org/2021/08/01/fire-season/ Photograph by Breno Machado, courtesy of Unsplash.com.

07/07/2021

The art of listening is at the heart of First Aid for Mental Health 💚

"A good listener is not a sponge that absorbs but a trampoline to bounce ideas off!"

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Ideas via Jack Zenger & Joseph Folkman

23/06/2021

22/06/2021

ℹ️ If you are a victim of domestic abuse or sexual harassment, go to your local chemist and ask for a face mask that can save your life.
Ask for “Mask-19”- Your chemist will know they need to alert 15900. ΦΑΡΜΑΚΕΥΤΙΚΟΣ ΣΥΛΛΟΓΟΣ ΑΤΤΙΚΗΣ- ΦΣΑ- FSA

21/06/2021

Abusers do not harm others because they are mentally ill, or because stress or 'passion' makes them lose control.

They do it because they get something out of it.

Abusers make a FREE CHOICE to abuse and harm.

If you find yourself choosing to verbally, physically, sexually, psychologically or financially abuse others - please seek specialist help. Before it's too late.

RIP Caroline Crouch 💚

28/03/2021

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Χρήσιμα τηλέφωνα από κρατικές υπηρεσίες και αρμόδιους φορείς, σε περίπτωση που βρεθεί κάποιος σε κατάσταση έκτακτης ανάγκης