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If you are worried about your or someone else's mental health, the best place to get help is your GP or local mental health provider. However, if you or someone else is in danger or endangering others, call police immediately on 111.

Or if you need to talk to someone else:
• Samaritans 0800 726 666

• Depression helpline: 0800 111 757 (available 24/7)
• Lifeline: 0800 543 354 (available 24/7)
• Suicide Crisis Helpline: 0508 828 865 (0508 TAUTOKO) (available 24/7)
• Youthline: 0800 376 633
• Whatsup: 0800 942 8787 (1pm to 11pm)

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Julia Grace

I’m thinking of signing up for embarrassing bodies - BE KIND TO YOUR MIND

I am falling apart…I have had a small cyst appear on the back of my knee, it’s hard to see but it hurts. The doctor has sent me for an ultrasound – maybe they want to see if it’s going to be a boy or a girl haha. Oh and don’t get me started on the mysterious white dot on my arm… Not seriously, earlier this year I reopened my fragile heart and had it spectacularly broken, and while my mind and soul are still reeling from the impact of the blow, my body has also carried the d

The world’s going crazy…what can I do??

As a child I was brought up under the threat of nuclear war. I firmly believed that any day, a powerful man in a darkened room would press down on a big red button and begin a war that would have no winners, only a planet full of losers. The fear was real and justified, but in many ways had a strange feeling of safety built into it. We felt that we knew where the threat was coming from, we knew that if it started, it was quantifiable and final. Today my children live under a

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I’m thinking of signing up for embarrassing bodies - BE KIND TO YOUR MIND

The world’s going crazy…what can I do??

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