Recovery Focus

Two new sites added this morning with a focus on Recovery.  http://scottishrecovery.net describes recovery as follows:

“Recovery is being able to live a meaningful and satisfying life, as defined by each person, in the presence or absence of symptoms. It is about having control over and input into your own life. Each individual’s recovery, like his or her experience of the mental health problems or illness, is a unique and deeply personal process.”

The second, http://recoveryinnovations.org is an American website that offers a very broad view of Recovery concepts.  It gives a good overall view of what Mental Health Recovery is.

New Category

To try and help navigation, I have added an extra “Recovery Focus” category.  You’ll find all our links on the Link Library page.

Links to Add?

If you know of a link we should be listing, please add it to the comments at the bottom of the Link Library page.  Feedback is always a useful thing!  If something is missing, you are having trouble finding the information you need or you just have a general comment or suggestion, please Get In Touch.

Advocacy Link

Just added a link for the Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance (http://siaa.org.uk) to the National Organisations and General Interest catagories.  The SIAA is an umberella organisation for Advocacy in Scotland.  They have a useful search facility that will help you find a local Advocacy service.

Healthy Working Lives

This is an organisation sponsored by the NHS.  The site(http://www.healthyworkinglives.com) gives advice to both employers and employees about ways that improving the work environment can lead to a healthier and more motivated workforce.  There is particular advice about the Disability Discrimination Act and how this impacts on employers, especially when thinking about Reasonable Adjustment to the workplace.

As part of the improvements to ELPsych! I have adjusted the way that links are shown on the site.  Previously, the link directory was a separate website with Directory software installed.  This attracted far too much spam as companies tried to get themselves listed.  Since almost none of them had anything to do with Mental Health, we didn’t really want these links on our site.

The Link Directory is now part of this website making it much easier to manage.  However, I still want suggestions to be added.  If you have come across a website or internet resource that you have found useful, please let me know so that other can benefit as well.

You’ll find the Directory Here.  Use the comments section at the bottom of that page to add your suggestions.

I couldn’t resist a comment on a foodie theme that has emerged in the popular press over the last few weeks.

The NHS Choices website has published an article referring to pieces in the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph both extolling the benefits of salt as a treatment for Depression.  The Mail’s article goes into a bit more detail than the Telegraph’s but it’s probably the NHS site that explains the theory the best.

What the NHS missed though was an article in the MIrror.  They published an article in February listing 1o Top Tips for dealing with Paranoid Psychosis.  Number 4?  Eat more Lettuce!  Apparently it contains a Morphine like substance that aids sleep.

We’ve heard a few comments recently suggesting it’s not as easy to find Psychological Therapies as it should be.  When we looked a bit closer, it was easy to see why!

There is a nice big map just inside the Aberlady Road entrance to the Herdmanflat Site.  It points the way to the Adult Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) but doesn’t list Psychological Therapies separately.  Since our front door is different, this is confusing.

To find us, follow the road through the car park down the right of the building.  You’ll see our door before you get to the bottom of the road (it’s the only door!).

Here’s an interactive map to help.  You’ll need flash installed for it to work.

Hope this helps.  If not – Let us know!