Archives for the 'health' Category
How are you feeling? Have your say in a national survey
Have you been feeling unwell for a long time? Have you got a disability? Then now is your chance to share your views in a national survey. The survey is about how being ill or disabled affects your life. It asks questions like: – Do you have enough time with your friends? – How is [...]
Congratulations to the Youth Commission on Alcohol for their report on alcohol culture in Scotland
Hi blog readers, Just been reading the Youth Commission on Alcohol report. Wow! It’s great! The young people involved have spent a year doing research about Scotland’s relationship to alcohol. They have talked to doctors, politicians from all over Europe, people in the alcohol industry and many children and young people affected by alcohol mis-use. [...]
Interview with Keith Gray, winner of Royal Mail Scottish Children’s Book Awards
Last week Enquire hung out with Keith Gray, the author whose book Ostrich Boys recently won the Royal Mail Scottish Children’s Book Awards. The book is about 3 teenage lads whose friend Ross has died in a traffic accident. Ross had told his friends that he always wanted to go to a village by the [...]
Drugs and alcohol – think you know all the risks? Fast Forward can set the record straight
Fast Forward promotes health and well-being by giving young people the info that they need to make wise choices about drugs and alcohol. They believe that young people are often more likely to listen and respond to info that’s given by their peers – people close to them in age – rather than by adults. This [...]
Feeling down in the dumps at school?
What do these famous people have in common? Drew Barrymore Jim Carrey Kurt Cobain from Nirvana They’ve all had depression at some point in their lives. Some people think that ‘mental health’ is just something other people have. But we ALL have mental health – its to do with how we feel inside, and that [...]
Alcohol culture in Scotland… let’s get it sorted
Peer pressure, stress at school, isolation … these were just some of the issues about alcohol that came up in a podcast I did last week with Siobhan, one of the young people on the Youth Commission on Alcohol. The Commission is a group of young people from different parts of Scotland who are looking [...]
Do you like taking photos? This competition may be just your thing.
Do you like taking photos? See Me have a competition that may be perfect for you! See Me is the national campaign to stop stigma against people with mental health issues. So what is stigma? See Me say that its about ‘being avoided, ignored, talked about, laughed at or bullied’ all because your mental health [...]
Stressed out?
Last week I went to an event about supporting young people’s mental health. People sometimes say silly things about mental health. Maybe they don’t really understand what it means. But the truth is that all of us have days when we feel rubbish from time to time. When bad stuff happens, or people hurt us [...]
Is someone you know drinking too much alcohol? Are you?
This week Enquire met up with Alcohol Focus Scotland to talk about how alcohol affects young people’s lives. It may be that someone in your family is drinking too much and you feel ashamed and don’t know who to talk to about it. Being worried and upset about things going on at home can make [...]
Off school because you’re not well? Boy tells Enquire how he deals with ill health
Hello blog readers, how are you? We all have times in our life when our health is not great. Maybe we have to take time off for a day or two. Or maybe even longer. Being ill can make you feel crap. You can really miss your friends. And it can be hard to catch [...]
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