The complete list of all life-guiding messages for young people – click the titles for further information
Get up at least 10 minutes early to give you time to prepare the car. Don’t drive off with a tiny hole cleared in the windscreen: clear all windows using a scraper and de-icer.
If a person’s mental or emotional state quickly worsens, this can be treated as a mental health emergency or mental health crisis. In this situation, it’s important to get help as soon as possible. Contact NHS Direct (or NHS 111 if available in your area) to find out where help is available. If you feel the person is in immediate danger then call 999.
Postnatal depression can also happen after miscarriage and stillbirth, as well as after giving birth. Getting support from others is crucial.
Have you noticed that the way you behave towards others, they often reflect that back at you like a mirror? If you change what you put out there, you change what you get back.
Doing bad behaviour to get attention often just brings the consequences for that behaviour. Try talking instead about what it is you actually want.
The best way to get someone’s attention is to ask for it. Ask directly and politely: “I would like your attention for something, are you free now?”
“When we seek to make a difference in someone else’s life, the biggest difference occurs in us.” – Randy Gravitt
Whether you are a cook, a book-keeper, a fundraiser, a listener, an athlete, an organiser or a director, you have skills to volunteer that your community needs.
You can help support others experiencing similar issues to you if you’ve found a way to successfully resolve them, which others can learn from.
Using the same usernames for the places you visit socially online makes it easy for someone else to build up a picture of you and what you’ve shared with your online friends across interests.