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Live in the Lothians? Feeling depressed, low or stressed? Living Life to the Full can help

Living Life to the Full is a free lifeskills course for people with depression and anxiety. It can help you reduce stress, increase your confidence and activity and challenge negative thoughts. We're running a course in Edinburgh soon. If you don't live in the Lothians but are elsewhere in Scotland, you can do the course online with telephone support.

Bipolar Scotland Conference: 18 Sept 2010

Bipolar Scotland will be holding their Annual General Meeting and Annual Conference on Saturday 18 September 2010, 10am – 3.45pm. The event will be held at the Menzies Hotel, 27 Washington Street, Glasgow, G3 8AZ.

The main theme of the conference will be “Celebrating Self-Help”.

Will Lyons, a journalist with the Wall Street Journal, will be one of our keynote speakers. Will wrote an article for the Scotsman and has been interviewed by Fergal Keane on BBC Radio 4, on his experience of caring for his wife who has a diagnosis of bipolar disorder.

Also, Aileen Bell and Alan Douglas from Bipolar Scotland will be giving a talk on self-help groups – the story so far.

The afternoon session will include workshops on Welfare Reform – Which Way Now? Self-Help groups – do they work? and participative workshops with Universal Comedy and Tai Chi.

Please note that Bipolar Scotland will be able to meet the cost of travel expenses for those in severe financial hardship.

For a booking form, please contact Bipolar Scotland on 0141 560 2050, or e-mail info@bipolarscotland.org.uk

Mood Matters

Everyone feels low and down from time to time. Visit Mood Matters to find out what you can do to improve your mood.. You can also find out what other people do to feel better on the site.

Supermandy: raising money for young adults with depression

Mandy Lindsay, aged 24, had recently got a good degree from Strathclyde University and was planning her wedding to Tony Goodall. However Mandy also had depression and sadly she completed suicide late last year. Now Tony has set up the Supermandy fund to raise money for Depression Alliance Scotland (that's us, the charity behind Look OK...Feel Crap?).

The money raised will be used to reach other young people with depression like Mandy and let them know they are not alone in feeling like they do and that there's support and hope out there. You can donate to the fund at www.justgiving.com/supermandy

On 17th May, some of Mandy's friends did a marathon (about 26 miles) up the three highest mountains in Britain in under 24 hours in memory of Mandy. You can still support them at http://www.justgiving.com/sneakypeaks.

There will also be other events happening in memory of Mandy and you can find out more and show your support for the cause on the Facebook group We Support Supermandy

Look OK…Feel Crap? is currently rolling out in the Highlands!

This means that we’ll be running self-help courses in the Highlands. The courses are based on an approach called Living Life to the Full which has been found to help people with depression and low mood. Find out more.

If you, or someone you know may be interested in attending a course then there are lots of ways to stay informed:

Sign up for our email newsletter
Become a fan of our Facebook page
Follow us on Twitter
Keep an eye on our website
Drop us a line at ask@lookokfeelcrap.org

Look out for our advertising campaign – we’re putting the message out there on buses, beer mats and on advertising boards in the Eastgate Shopping Centre in Inverness.

Also, don’t forget that the Living Life to the Full course is available online with support from our self-help worker via telephone.

We would love to hear from you if you are in the Highlands – whether you are interested in self-help courses, have seen our adverts, want support or simply want to say hello!

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