Healthy young minds
ON October 9, thousands of Australians generously threw their support behind headspace day, kicking off National Mental Health Week. headspace day is an opportunity to educate young people on the importance of taking care of their mental health issues early, before they become more serious.
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Every year, a quarter of all young Australians will experience mental health issues and we want them to know that headspace is here to help. Research shows that 75 per cent of mental health issues emerge before the age of 25. By getting on top of issues early, the chances of recovery are greatly increased.
On headspace day we asked all Australians to share their personal mental health tips, telling us how they take care of their mental health. We gathered thousands of ideas to show young people the many different ways to maintain a healthy headspace.
It has been inspiring to see so many Australians share on #headspaceday, including Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Opposition leader Bill Shorten, musicians and sports stars.
Our headspace clinicians say talking about how we take care of our mental health can encourage others to do the same. It is just as important to take care of our minds, as it is our bodies.
With 100 centres across Australia [including at Lake Haven], and phone and online chat service eheadspace, over the past decade headspace has enabled over 355,000 young people to access mental health care.
There is still time to support headspace just visit headspaceday.org.au, write your personal mental health tip on a headspace day postcard and share this on your social media with #headspaceday
Thank you to everyone who took part in headspace day.
- Jason Trethowan, headspace CEO
Faith in Mother Nature
SORRY Carl Stevenson but your faith in Mother Nature is dangerously complacent (“Nature doing her best”, Lakes Mail, October 12). This is the same Mother Nature that has presided over seas 70 metres higher than present levels. And all the scientific reports I have read agree that a fully melted Greenland ice shelf would provide 6 to 7 metres of this rise, with the 14 million square kilometre Antarctic continent – containing 30 million cubic kiloetres of ice - providing most of the rest. Now that is a lot of ice! And the current melting rates are concerning the scientists. I know who I would listen to.
- Richard Mallaby, Wangi Wangi
What’s driving crime
FOR years, the news, whether in the press, on the radio, or television, has been dominated by disasters and violence. Except for some disasters, crime and violence would be less if the gap between the rich and the poor were less.
- John McLennan, Charlestown
Who’s an Aussie?
WITH the ongoing circus of “who’s an Aussie” being staged in Canberra at the federal level, one has to question the strange world all our politicians actually live in. At the state level, a by-election was held early this year for seat of North Shore. In the run up we saw the winning candidate unable to tell how long she had lived in the electorate, nor what qualifications she had. And with the Canberra circus we are not being told how much that is costing us. Politicians?
- David Barrow, Merewether
Digital TV stinks
IT is amazing the technology we are surrounded by cannot do much better than deliver an almost worse TV picture than was around in 1958. Seems to be that digital television just doesn't cut it. If there is some sort of bad weather or different weather the television just doesn't want to work as predicted. Maybe I am a little too old to trust what people say. Nah! I think it just stinks.
- John Robert Lewis, Waratah