Mental Health Blog - Jake Symons

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Red Circle of Stick People Enclosing Text: University Mental Health Day. Use Your Voice. March 7th 2019.

#UniMentalHealthDay

4 Comments / Other Mental Health Awareness Events / By Jake Symons / March 7, 2019 May 5, 2021

7/3/19 – #UniMentalHealthDay. Mental health in uni is on the rise. It’s time we spoke up, shared our story, and made uni a better place for mental health.

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2 Heart Shaped Cookies with One Absent leaving a heart shaped cutout outlined with sugar.

Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2019 Roundup

Leave a Comment / Eating Disorders Awareness Week / By Jake Symons / March 6, 2019 May 5, 2021

So much happened during #EDAW2019 so here is a selection of the best content around the web.

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2 Heart Shaped Cookies with One Absent leaving a heart shaped cutout outlined with sugar.

Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2019

5 Comments / Eating Disorders Awareness Week / By Jake Symons / March 4, 2019 May 5, 2021

So it’s the end of EDAW. Never having an eating disorder in this post I share how this weeks helped me.

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Blank scrabble pieces with upturned pieces reading "Mental Health" with corresponding scores for each letter.

Mental Health Online: A Small Bite

Leave a Comment / Mental Health Advocacy / By Jake Symons / February 15, 2019 May 5, 2021

Here is my small bite about trying to navigate the online world of social media when you have mental health. It’s a dangerous place. Here’s my advice on how to deal with it the best you can.

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Old desk with clock, quill with blue ink and notepad.

How Free Writing Helps Me

3 Comments / Coping Strategies / By Jake Symons / February 12, 2019 May 5, 2021

Free writing is a very personal way of getting out what you’re going through, allowing your ideas to flow and to get things out your head.