Category Archives: mental health

You never stop needing your mum- Happy Mothers Day

You never stop needing your mum

Submitted by LAURAMAY on Wed, 14/03/2012 – 12:20pm

With a diagnosis of bipolar and borderline personality disorder, I have managed my mental health pretty well over the years, even if I do say so myself. I have stayed employed, volunteered for charity and even found someone to marry me! And the one person who has been there every step of the way is, of course, my mum. Supportive, often humorous and always on my side, my mum Chris is an inspiring woman in so many ways, however one instance springs to mind when I think of how much I still need her, even though I am a grown woman with a home and life of my own now.

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust will host the launch a national campaign Triangle of Care

Triangle of Care March event

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS trust to launch drive to involve health care staff, people with mental health needs and their carers Edited by Jane Hill editor@wellbeingnorfolk.co.uk
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust will host the launch a national campaign Triangle of Care, that calls for better involvement between health care staff, service users and their carers.
The event, which takes place on Friday 23 March 2012 is part of a wider–program of events organised to mark the public launch of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust.

Norfolk and Suffolk’s new mental health trust marks its launch with a showcase

Events 22 to 29 March 2012

Edited by Andy Porter editor@wellbeingnorfolk.co.uk
Members of the public are invited to join–in a program of events to mark three–months of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust.
The Trust was formed at the start of this year when Suffolk and Norfolk mental health services merged, to create one organisation.
The aim of the events, which take place between 22 March and 29 March, is to raise awareness of the Trust and showcase its services to local communities that it provides services for.
The events start on 22 March with an evening of art and drama to commemorate St Clement’s Hospital in Ipswich, the last Victorian asylum in Suffolk.

The following day the Trust will host the regional launch of Triangle of Care, a new national initiative aimed at including people with mental health needs and their carers more effectively in care planning.
On Saturday 24 March the Trust will be on–hand at Chapelfield in Norwich and Tower Ramparts in Ipswich to meet with members of the public, and get talking about mental health.
From 26 to 29 March there will be a series of mental health roadshows at libraries across the two counties – including Wymondham, King’s Lynn, Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, and Felixstowe, Stowmarket, Beccles and Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk.