This article is part of the series The Power Of that looks into many aspects of life and how they can be powerful in helping with individual management & maintenance of mental health. Warning - This is a post about swearing intended to educate, without resorting to use of swearing, even though the author was incredibly tempted to do so The Power Of Swearing This really should be a short post that, for those of you reading that are against the use of emotive language including swear words, also known as use of profanity, should perhaps read on and have a rethink, and you know perhaps give swearing a go and see how you feel afterwards, as I can tell you now, you’ll feel better for it.

As someone that’s been through many types of pain, and seen many go through their own pains, I can say that it really really does. But pain is a personal journey, that whilst we may be able to sympathise and even empathise with those going through pain, I don’t think we can truly be able to say that we know exactly what a person is going through when they are dealing with, even if we may have gone through similar things to them.

Technology has helped keep many friends, families, schools, organisations & even governments stay connected and be able to function during the COVID19 Pandemic at mostly near pre-pandemic levels & in some cases beyond pre-pandemic levels. However, it is safe to say that even leading up to the pandemic there had been lots to consider about “Finding the Balance” between what is a good amount of technology & what is likely to be a detrimental amount of technology.

Back in May I was lucky enough to be invited onto a Podcast called Perspectives In TecH and had chance to chat to former host Don Jones. For those of you that don’t know Don, he is a 20+ year IT Veteran and is well known for leading the way with a Technical Community that I got the chance to be involved in. You can listen to what we had to say over on his podcast

As you can likely tell from the title of this post, I am going to go into the detail of what I think is a novel new way to attempt to describe how various states of mental health can and do affect us all differently. Firstly I think it is important to get across a very simple, but often overlooked point when it comes to mental heath, and that is that mental health is something that we all have, much like the blood in our veins, the air in our lungs or the bacteria in our guts.

Who am I? I am Gem Hill, I’m in my early 30s and work in Manchester as a Senior Software Tester at the BBC. I met Ryan at a mental health meet up and was really interested in the idea of mhasl.me as I spend some of my non-work time talking about mental health. I’ve got a podcast (Innerpod.co.uk), and do talks about mental health at meetups and conferences. You can see one of my talks here (you’ll need a free account on the site): https://www.

Today is Feb 21st and it is Mental Health Nurse Appreciation Day which you can find out more about over at https://mhnursesday.wordpress.com/ and you can have a look at some of the posts being made by following their twitter account https://twitter.com/MHnursesday and also these hashtags MHNurseDay , MHNursesDay, MentalHealthNursesDay I would also reading this blog https://mentalhealthnurseabby.wordpress.com/2019/02/21/why-mental-health-nursing/ and following Abby https://twitter.com/MHnurseabby and also check out this post https://caras-corner.com/2019/02/21/why-i-became-a-mental-health-nurse/ by https://twitter.com/CaraLisette If you think you might be interested in a career as a Mental Health Nurse then I would recommend having a read through the below links

This is the first part in a small series into The Strains that Sleep Deprivation & Sleep Disturbances can take on your Mental Health & Physical Health We all know the importance of a good nights sleep, and the health benefits this brings us, right? If not then I recommend you have a quick read of this article that explains just a few of the benefits that a good nights sleep can bring you.

Whilst today Feb 7th is #TimeToTalk Day, a day that symbolises the need for people to talk about their Mental Health, this also raises a perhaps unspoken point around the need to write about mental health as much as it does to talk about it. Writing things down is a really good way of being able to process complex things, like mental health, or a really difficult mathematical equation or even just something that you want to say to someone.

Over time mhasl will get a number of new bloggers and in this series of blog posts we will briefly introduce you to these new Bloggers. So without further ado Who am I? I am Ryan Yates, I’m in my late 20s and I am an IT Consultant that works at a Software Consultancy in the UK and I am the founder of this blog site. I set up this site, Mental Health Affects Someone Like Me, because Mental Health does affect someone just like me, and after a lot of thought and some conversations with some of my peers in various areas, I decided upon setting up this blog site with a view to help end the stigma about talking & writing about mental health, hopefully from all angles.