Your mental health has a massive impact on every area of your life. From work to relationships to family to performing routine tasks, self-image to physical health – your mental state plays a big role. It is important to make a conscious effort to improve and maintain your mental health. Using expert advice from psychologists and life coaches, we explain how you can get on the road to achieving optimum mental health.
Ted Tierney Vice Chief Executive of Mental Health Ireland answers your questions Q: My 32-year-old wife lost her job last year. She has gone from having a high salary and high profile job to nothing. She’s been on the dole and spends her time on online and drinks during the day. It’s affecting our relationship badly and I can barely …
Most parents want their children to have a healthy sense of self esteem, but are they aware that it plays a major role in laying a solid foundation for a child’s development? What is self-esteem? Self-esteem is basically how we feel about ourselves compared with others. It is the collection of beliefs or feelings we have about ourselves, our self-perceptions. …
If your child is being bullied, the problem needs to be handled sensitively and immediately. Here are some useful tips on how to cope with the problem Most kids have been teased by a sibling or a friend at some point. And it’s usually not harmful when done in a friendly and mutual way – and both kids find it …
Relationship coach Mary Curran discusses the steps to healing after your partner has had an affair There is no doubt about it – when an affair takes place in a relationship there is always pain, a sense of loss of respect, and an issue around trust. 99 out of 100 affairs take place mainly because something is not working in …
