Laser Lessons - Lesson

Understanding mental health

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In this lesson, you will learn:

Some factors that can affect your mental health
That it isn’t always as easy to recognise poor mental health as it is with physical illness
That it wasn’t very long ago that mental illness wasn’t really understood and people were very wary of talking about it

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‘If you never fail, you never learn’: How to build your resilience’ on the BBC Radio 4 website. Click to read this article.
‘Social influences affecting mental health’ is an article on the Counselling Directory.
Click to read more about the Human Rights Act 1998 on the Mind website.
Click to read about mental health conditions on the Sane website.
Click to read a number of personal stories about mental health on the Time to Change website.

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