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Mental Health is a Universal Right. World Mental Health Day 2023.
When designing and delivering our services, MYPAS works hard to ensure that the rights of children and young people are protected as well as meaningfully involving young people and their families in our service design. Such an approach seeks to ensure that our services are available, accessible, acceptable, of high quality, and participative, with a
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Kiltwalk 2023
Come and fundraise with us this year at the Edinburgh Kiltwalk, September 17th 2023. We need your support! It means so much to our children and young people to see people supporting them by walking for MYPAS. See below for details on how to enter for FREE! What is the Kiltwalk? The Kiltwalk is a
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Pupil Power!
Our latest blog post is to celebrate some of the recent fantastic fundraising by schools and pupils across East Lothian and Midlothian. First up we have Team Penicuik High who recently took part in our annual Bluebell Trail Run on the 14th of May. This team, made up of pupils and staff from the high school raised
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Hey Girls! Community Partners
We are proud and very excited to announce that we are now community partners with Hey Girls UK! This means that all young people accessing MYPAS services whether you are visiting our offices or having sessions at school or in the community can take FREE period products. A bit about Hey Girls!… Hey Girls! are
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Mental Health Awareness Week 2023 – Anxiety
What is anxiety? Anxiety could be seen as an emotion or sensation. It could be defined as fear, a feeling of unease, or a bodily reaction to stress or threat. It could be that the experience is never quite captured in words. You might feel worried and not really know why. You might feel scared
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Mental Health Awareness Week 2023
Why you don’t need to have a diagnosable mental health condition to benefit from counselling. If you’re a social media user, even just occasionally, you might just have noticed that much of the content we see on these sites relates to mental health and wellbeing. Some of this content is really helpful and informative and,
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Nitrous Oxide: the risks are not to be laughed at
Nitrous Oxide (more commonly known as Laughing Gas) is in the news. Once again, a high profile English Premiership footballer has been photographed appearing to inhale what appears to be Nitrous Oxide from a balloon. More importantly, however, is the UK Government’s announcement that Nitrous Oxide is due to be banned for illicit use. It
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MYPAS Fundraising Bluebell Trail Run
Tickets on sale now! MYPAS Bluebell Trail Run Sunday 14th of May 2023 at Dalkeith Country Park. We are delighted to announce that tickets for our Bluebell Trail Run have been released. Please follow this link to buy your tickets for our 10K run, 5K run or junior 1K run: https://www.stuweb.co.uk/events/2023/05/14/4193/ Full information on our
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Is it all about Christmas?
It has been another tough year and all the talk about Christmas can be hard. There are many shoulds, oughts and musts about this time of year – obligations, rules and requirements, but those demands do not always line up with how we feel and it can feel tough. There are a few things we
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Just Breathe?
When we experience stress and anxiety or feel overwhelmed by anger or frustration probably the most common advice people will give is to “just breathe…” When you experience a stressful event, your body automatically goes into “flight, fight or freeze” mode. Your heart rate increases, your stomach stops digestion, and your breathing becomes more shallow.
