Mental Health

Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices.

Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood. Challenging events in life such as pandemics, loss and many more can affect our mental health. But there are many things we can do to mind your mental health during times like this.

We put together some psycho-educational tools to have at hand on a day-to-day basis and in times of need.

Text About

It provides a safe space where you’re listened to by a trained volunteer who will help you sort through your feelings. Text HELLO to 50808 to start a conversation.

Crosscare

Crosscare supports people who are homeless or struggling to find accommodation and who may have complex needs when they face difficult challenges in life and when they find it hard to get the help they need.

Blanchardstown Community Counselling

It is a counselling and psychotherapy practice based in Ongar village. They offer an affordable supportive therapeutic environment option.

Genesis low-cost psychotherapy

Genesis is an independent, community-based charity providing a quality, low-cost psychotherapy service to the community of Dublin 15.

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction FREE course

This online MBSR course,100% free, created by a fully certified MBSR instructor, and is based on the program founded by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Link! - Reduce Stress with the Physiological Sigh

Andrew Huberman describes "Physiological Sighs" which is a pattern of breathing of two inhales, followed by an extended exhale. This pattern ca reduce our levels of anxiety and calm down fast.

Link! - How to Process Your Emotions

In order to be calm and at ease with ourselves, we need regular periods where we do something rather strange-sounding: process our emotions. Here is a guide to this essential psychological move.

Link! - Neuroplasticity: a tour of the Brain

The Sentis Brain Animation Series takes you on a tour of the brain through a series of short animations. The fourth in the series explains how our most complex organ is capable of changing throughout our lives.

Link! - Understand The Window of Tolerance

The window of tolerance is a concept originally developed by Dr. Dan Siegel, MD to describe the optimal zone for a person where they can effectively manage and cope with their emotions.

Link! - The new era of positive psychology | Martin Seligman

Martin Seligman talks about psychology -- as a field of study and as it works one-on-one with each patient and each practitioner. As it moves beyond a focus on disease, what can modern psychology help us to become?

Link! - What Can You Do To Keep Your Brain Healthy?

Sabina Brennan is a former Fair City actress turned research psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist. In this video she gives some tips on how to boost your memory, defy dementia and help in keeping your brain healthy.

Link! - Four recommended mental health apps

With more than 90% of the population now using smartphones, people are more likely to turn to technology for help for both short-term anxiety and depression and other more enduring mental health problems.

Mental Health

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