Friday 10th October I will be doing a Drop In Session from 10am to 12 noon at St Aidan Church Coffee Morning, so folks can find out more about YourSpace. I have advertised this at the NHS Well Being Centre, Gloucester Carers, Gloucestershire BBC Radio and the Mental Health Service and also Depression Alliance and Anxiety UK Web Sites .
Monday 20th October Please note this will be our Social Get Together so meeting as usual at usual venue on 13th October. We will be meeting at The Bank House in Cheltenham from 7pm. You can come and chat have a drink or have a meal.
Monday 27th October there sill be no meeting.
Monday 3rd November Meetings back up and running usual place and time
Friday 21st November YourSpace is having a table at St Aidan Church Christmas Fare. If anyone has any unwanted gifts they would like to donate please bring them along to our Monday meetings. Any funds we make will go towards the Group.
We are also hoping to be arranging a Christmas Meal. This is yet to be sorted so watch this space!
Meeting on Monday was really good. I was pleased to hear some very positive outcomes from folks, thank you for coming along to tell us about how much better you are feeling and how you have achieved this. These stories are always good to hear!
People are all different and recover in different ways and different time scales. Either by taking a good supplement, having a natural therapy or just working through their problems. I think we need to realise though that some times those troubling thoughts, that keep our anxiety or depression alive, tend to hover about the mind. There may be a tendency to fall into old habits when we think these thoughts or re live a situation that we have found difficult to manage. It's worth acknowledging that folks who have never suffered, with any type of mental health condition, would find similar situations or thoughts troublesome, so don't be too hard on yourself, it's part of the human state, to think, worry, get anxious and feel down. So try to keep positive.
Hope the coming week is kind to you all
Ruth D