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Local Update, 29 November 2021

Barnet Voice for Mental Health [[link removed]]

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Welcome to our weekly newsletter about mental health services and support available in Barnet and beyond. Also bringing you updates on Inclusion Barnet mental health news. Produced by Ed Peston, Communications Assistant.

Our colleagues at Healthwatch Barnet are hosting a special event to promote and encourage better physical and mental health for people with a learning disability in Barnet. 2.00pm - 5.00pm Thursday 2 December.

COVID has had a big impact on everyone including people with a learning disability. It has been difficult to access services that have moved online and it has become harder to connect with each other.

Healthwatch Barnet has teamed up with Barnet Integrated Learning Disability Service, Barnet Mencap and other local services to arrange a special My Health Matters event for providers and family carers.

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Mental Wellbeing Group from Barnet Carers, Monday 29 November, 4.00 - 5.00pm

The focus for this week will address the struggles and rewards of being a carer.

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Barnet Yoga

Free Prop Yoga and Chair Yoga Courses in Hendon From January 2022. To apply WhatsApp 07766018731.

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Barnet Service User and Carer Forum

Date: 16th December 2021

Runs on the third Thursday of every month

Time: 14:00 – 15:30

Barnet Mental Health services want to hear what you have to say about Adult Mental Health services. They are setting up a regular forum and need you to get involved to feedback your experiences and share your ideas. The forum encourages and promotes service users and carers working alongside staff to coproduce services.

More information to follow nearer the above date.

What are the new Nice guidelines on depression?

The watchdog has issued the first new guidance for health professionals in 12 years

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NHS to give therapy for depression before medication under new guidelines

Draft guidance says ‘menu of treatment options’ including CBT and mindfulness should be offered in less severe cases

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The SelfWork Podcast

Depression, anxiety, and personal emotional struggles, are hard to manage on their own. You can feel very lonely in that battle. And so many people either can’t or won’t try therapy. It’s too weird, it’s too expensive, or you’re nervous about trying it. SelfWork can help you begin that healing, or be an addition to the work you’re already doing.

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The Positive Psychology Podcast

The positive psychology podcast brings the science of the good life to your earbuds.

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The autistic women denied a diagnosis for decades

When the television presenter Melanie Sykes and the model Christine McGuinness revealed they had been diagnosed with autism as adults, it brought new attention to the challenges for others like them whose symptoms have been missed. This is the story of one autistic woman - and how diagnosis in her thirties changed her life

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Neurodiversity, Radical Empathy and the Future of Mental Health, Friday 3 December, 2.00 - 3.30pm

Join Dr Kurt Sylvan, Philosophy at the University of Southampton, for this online event that explores the philosophy of neurodiversity, and the ideas surrounding it.

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My treatment in an NHS psychiatric ward was crucial. But why was I there so long?

Institutionalised care, with its loss of freedom and autonomy, should not be the only choice in a mental health crisis

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How creativity can boost your mental health

Creativity is known to relieve both stress and anxiety.

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Building Friendship

Building Friendship is a free weekly drop in every Friday for those with mental health difficulties.

Meet at East Barnet Baptist Church hall, EN4 8PS. Come along for a cup of coffee and a friendly chat between 10am and 12noon.

For more information email: [[email protected]]. Or leave a message with your name and contact number on 020 8449 5320.

The following online workshops are available to all adults anywhere. Mind and Mood Support Group

Mind & Mood Support Group has returned to face to face meetings at 55 Christchurch Avenue, London N12 0DG. To enquire about becoming a new member, please contact either Peter or Sandra below.

Peter Sartori e: [[email protected]]

Sandra Turner e: [[email protected]]

Both Peter Sartori and Sandra Turner have extensive experience of the mental health system.

We are an independent support group, run by ex service users, for service users, their carers and supporters.

About Inclusion Barnet

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We are a Peer-Led Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisation (DDPO).

Nearly all of our directors and staff have lived experience of disability, including mental health issues and/or long-term health conditions.

We believe that learning to use our lived experience for social change is a skill. We have become experts in harnessing the lived experience of our staff, members, volunteers and the people who use our services to design and deliver higher quality, more person-centred services.

Other services run by Inclusion Barnet that you might be interested in are:

Benefits Advice Service [[link removed]] (supporting disabled people in Barnet to access the benefits they are entitled to).

Touchpoint [[link removed]] (supports people experiencing any form of disability in Barnet to access the services and resources they need).

Healthwatch Barnet [[link removed]] (an independent, statutory organisation dedicated to improving health and social care services in Barnet).

For more information about the wider range of other work we do please visit our website [[link removed]]

Useful links for mental health and wellbeing

Click on the title to go to the individual websites.

LOCAL

Mind in Barnet [[link removed]] - counselling Mind in Barnet Sanctuary [[link removed]] - find calm, make space, move forward Barnet Wellbeing Service [[link removed]]BEH-MHT* crisis helpline 0800 151 0023 24/7, 365 days a year.

(*BEH-MHT = Barnet, Enfield Haringay - Mental Health Trust)

LONDON & NATIONAL

The Help Hub [[link removed]] - free online emotional support sessions Good Thinking [[link removed]] - free online Mental Wellbeing for London Kooth [[link removed]] - free, safe and anonymous online support for young people Qwell [[link removed]] - free online safe and confidential space to share & support

Shout [[link removed]]- free, 24/7 text messaging support - text SHOUT to 85258 Samaritans [[link removed]] - free phone & email support in a crisis Turn2Me [[link removed]] - free online Support Groups Useful links from Sussex University [[link removed]] - lots of useful links to MH resources

Independent Living Centre, c/o Barnet & Southgate College,

7 Bristol Avenue, Colindale, London NW9 4BR

Inclusion Barnet is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation.

Registered Charity Number: 1158632

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