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World Mental Health day in Bath
Chris from Soundwell entertaining at World Mental Health day in Bath
Escorting the Mayor
Wellbeing cakes
Janice, Trustee of Bath Mind, promoting Mental notes at World Mental Health day 2015
Spoctet raised the roof at World Mental Health day and brought it to a great finish
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National Curry Week
It’s national curry week and Mosaic wanted to share one of their gorgeous curry recipes for everyone to enjoy!
Curry
Samina’s veg busting curry
Ingredients
One medium sized Cabbage, sliced
4 Onions, sliced
One bag of spinach
5 potatoes, cubed
One cup of sweetcorn
One cup of peas
2 courgettes, cubed
2 peppers sliced
1 bunch of coriander
2 teaspoons of cumin seeds
1 table spoon of garlic paste
2 table spoons of tomato puree
1 table spoon ground coriander
1 table spoon of Fenugreek leaves
1 table spoon of green chillies sliced.
Red chilli powder according to taste
Salt according to taste
Method
Fry onions until turning brown and then add the garlic paste, cumin seeds and let them brown as well.
Add all the chopped vegetables, except for the peppers.
Let this sauté for about 10 mins and then add all of the spices except for the fenugreek leaves.
Mix in a glass of water and tomato puree and leave to cook for about 30 mins.
Add the fenugreek leaves, peppers and green chillies then leave to simmer for further 10 mins.
Could be served with rice or chapatti.
Enjoy!
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Positive Post
Would you be interested in turning back time and communicating the old fashioned way?
Bassetlaw Mind are looking to start a new pen pal service called “POSITIVE POST”. Members letters will be passed on at monthly meetings and return letters posted out (no private addresses will be shared).
We hope to help build positive long distance friendships with like minded people, to help with confidence, isolation and wellbeing. If you are interested or would like more information please contact Nic Parker mindreception@hotmail.com or Nicola Rea nicolarea@bassetlawmind.com 01909 476075
We look forward to hearing from you!
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Biblical Diseases
I’m possessed by demons
I need a herd of pigs
You may judge, you may be right
I don’t heed a fig.
I’ve also got a bubbly rash
The cream it does no good
It spreads it round, it doth abound
And then it dries like wood.
My friend he has a cold sore
I feel his awful pain
He may be anointing with the oil
But it comes back again.
So to find a friend in Jesus
He never will recoil
He’ll love us all both big and small
Whatever scabs or boil.
They say that Job had blisters
Yet he had to keep his faith
To show some pluck and with some luck
Your health thou shall regain.
by Meryl Williams
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One in one
by Bath Mind
What price mental health?
A report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), states that mental health ‘issues’ cost Britain £70bn a year. That is equivalent to 4.5% of GDP lost through missed working days, increased benefits for those unable to work and costs to the NHS.
Whilst the report is absolutely well-meaning – an attempt to get politicians and policy makers to put mental health on their agendas by talking in tough financial terms – surely it misses a more fundamental point? Mind’s driving ‘philosophy’ (if you will) is about creating a society in which good or better mental health for all is actively supported and enabled. This is an open acknowledgement that we all have different needs and responses to the world around us; we all have different experiences of relationships, work and the other factors that might determine our mental wellbeing. Many of these social factors are not on the radar of economic analysis. What if the economic system itself (competitive, often marginalising people on the basis of age, physical states and so forth) is itself part of the problem for achieving good mental health for all?
These are huge questions – questions that certainly won’t be answered in a blog. But it is good to take a moment to reflect that creating a better environment for mental health and wellbeing might involve some fundamental shifts in how we frame the debate in the first place.
by Molly Conisbee, trustee, Bath Mind
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Tagged Bath, cost, economics, mental health, mental illness, Molly Conisbee, NHS
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Bristol/Bath Marathon
I am running my 2nd Marathon this year for Bath Mind/Greenlinks having completed the London in April raising nearly £500.00. Now, I have a Virgin Just Giving site to continue my quest to try and raise a bit more. I am a member of the Greenlinks team and believe it is great therapy for everyone that visits the site and partake in the various activities associated with gardening and growing or just relaxing with a cup of tea or coffee. As with any project it needs funds to keep it running and relies on donations/sponsorship. So please “Dig Deep” excuse the pun and support this great cause. Hope to see you all at the finish line in Victoria park on 25th October. I am estimating 4 1/2 to 5 hours so 1.30 to 2 o’clock finish. Please give generously.
by Malcolm Sutton
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Tagged Bath, Bath Mind, bristol, Greenlinks, marathon, mental health, running
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Psycho Poet
I gorged myself on death
tasting the poison in the air
with ink blood on paper
Just as I succumbed
to subliminal messages
at dawn each day
Jigsaws echo across the land
on the long march
since pre-history, times on cave walls
My voice was representative
of evolution, art lives
with such an intricate mosaic
I am missing you all so much
seeking absolution, a penalty
for that which I have yet to do
I share my mythology with you
so do not weep for me
for I am gone –
A special language
putting my name to a movement
for I am your psycho poet
By Fairburn
Bipolar blogging
The Masks We Wear by Kate McDonnell
I’ve been blogging about what it’s like to have bipolar disorder for a couple of years. I was very nervous at first, worried about the stigma if anybody found out who I was. Also, I was terrified that people out there in the ether would be horrid. I needn’t have worried. Without exception, everybody whom I’ve come across on my blog has been warm and kind. It was quite a surprise, I can tell you!
I draw funny little black and white pictures of my experiences, and I’m often very moved by people who say they see their own stories reflected in my work. It makes me feel a great deal less alone. There is a wonderful support network out here on the internet, and I hope that Your Voice will not only be a place for people to speak out, but also a place to listen and encourage.
You can see my blog The Bipolar Codex here. http://bipolarcodex.com/
By Kate McDonnell, Bath Mind trustee
Your Voice 