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Rekindle's young people, trustees and staff with Lord Alex Carlile for the summer relaunch Kemal Keeble is the Recovery Practitioner at the mental health charity Rekindle based in Newtown, North Powys. I went to meet him, his colleague Diane Williams, and some of the young people they work with a few weeks ago at their lovely new premises at Market Street. Kemal runs the Small Steps Project at Rekindle, so he and the young people have now worked together to produce this guest blog post for us. Some weeks ago I was asked if Small Steps would like to post a blog on the Powys Mental Health blog site run by the mental health team at Powys Association of Voluntary Organisations (PAVO). The idea being that we could get some of the young people we are involved with actively writing about their own experiences of mental health and their own roads to recovery. That we might write a little introduction to our service, the things we do, and explain how what we do aids the community we live...

What indeed! Well, I could get started here because my car failed its MOT for the second time in a fortnight yesterday, we’re temporarily short-staffed in the team for a number of reasons and the damp problem in my living room is showing no signs of going away anytime soon… Michelle Longhurst But less on the current lows in my life, and back to the meat of this post. What’s on your plate? is the brilliant name given to a relatively new support service run by the mental health charity Ponthafren Association . There are weekly  Wednesday  sessions at  Welshpool (5 - 6pm), whilst in  Newtown they are on Mondays (6 - 7.30pm). Earlier today I spoke to Michelle Longhurst, who is the Welshpool Outreach Resource Facilitator, to find out more. Michelle explained that members of Ponthafren Association now have an opportunity to take time out and talk about specific areas of their lives that they may be struggling with. Tracy Fletcher, a counsellor at Ponthafren, set up What’s...

Today is World Suicide Prevention Day across the globe. The theme in this 13th year of the Day is “Preventing Suicide: Reaching Out and Saving Lives.” The issue of suicide is as relevant in Powys as it is anywhere else in the world. In speaking to police officers in the local Dyfed Powys force recently I was made aware that the incidence of attempted suicide and self-harm in the county has been rising over recent months. Police officers are often the first emergency services on the scene in crisis situations, along with those from Health. Here in our team we provide an Information Service , not a Crisis Helpline such as Samaritans or C.A.L.L.Helpline , but nevertheless we are still occasionally called or met by people who are extremely distressed and tell us that they want to kill themselves. According to the Samaritans Suicide Statistics Report 2015 : Male suicides in Wales rose by 23% between 2012 and 2013, and rates are significantly higher than those in England since 2010. The BB...

by guest author, Owen Griffkin Gein's Family Gift Shop There’s an old saying which goes -  "Laughter is the best medicine." There’s also a joke, which is nearly as old, which retorts, "Unless you are diabetic, and then it’s insulin". I was a stand-up comedian for a good while back in the last millennium, and now I produce a host of comedy nights in and around the Mid Wales area and I have to say that I wholeheartedly agree with this adage, having seen first hand the benefits of a ‘right good b%***y laugh’. Anyone with any experience of mental health issues knows that laughter is a wonderful way to feel better as it decreases our stress hormones, produces endorphins and increases memory, alertness and learning. It’s for this reason that I have been working with the Wyeside Arts Centre , the Arts Council of Wales , and the Garfield Weston Foundation on a pilot project right here in Powys to help build confidence, improve mental wellbeing and break down some of th...