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Trinity startup “Silvercloud” raises €8m euro in funding

The online wellness company was set up in 2012 but began as a research project in Trinity

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The online wellness company Silvercloud has raised more than €8m in funding, the Irish Examiner has reported.

The company offers a range of online services designed to help people manage mental health and behavioural health issues such as depression, anxiety,

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Learning to manage my mental health

Dáire O’Driscoll opens up about his struggle with anxiety

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“It was only later that I realised all of these moments of insomnia, heart palpitations, shortness of breath and paranoia were panic attacks”

Statistics about mental health always seemed so abstract to me. The leading cause of

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What I’m really thinking: Living with mental health issues

“Sometimes you’ll find yourself starting a sentence with “ever feel…” and your friend will answer “no”.”

“I’m afraid of being unable to speak and express myself to the best of my abilities. I’m afraid that people don’t truly know me, and will validate my biggest fear. I am an inherently unlikable being. I care too much

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Tick, tock, the clock strikes done

An anonymous writer describes the stress and isolation associated with constant connectivity and juggling many commitments at once

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“Chest tightens, heart throbs, throat closes up. I need to run to the beach and turn off my phone, but I can’t, I have things to do.”

I feel like a puppet, there are a million strings coming from me;

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Introducing the TCDSU Lobby Group

The group was formed this summer with President Kieran McNulty as Chair

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In line with his manifesto for election, Trinity College Dublin Student Union (TCDSU) President Kieran McNulty has organised a Lobby Group which will act as the SU’s ‘political wing’, aiming to represent student voices in national politics through eight campaigns:

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The Importance of a Broad Understanding of Mental health

Olly Donnelly explores how a binary perception of mental health can stigmatise and prevent appropriate government action.

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I went to the gym once. It might have been twice. Either way, I recall a lot of people who seemed very focused on being ‘healthy’. Whether that was a matter of lifting a set of 200 lb weights and

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The fight for mental health support needs to come from all in society

A graveside oration given by the Taoiseach in 2012 touched many, but action is needed more than words

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My lunch hid from the grey of a water-logged day, packed away in a transparent Tupperware box, protected only from the cold by a thin green lid. That’s it. Two sandwiches, one concave piece of plastic and a green lid.

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Anger at lack of mental health funding highlighted at USI national demonstration

The Union of Students in Ireland and Mental Health Reform joined outside the Dáil today to protest the diversion of €12 million from the mental health budget

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Rain did not dampen the spirits of the few hundred gathered to protest the diversion of €12 million from the mental health budget outside the Kildare entrance of Dáil Éireann today. The Union of Students in Ireland along with local

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Mental health, spirituality and faith – in defense of the Catholic Church

The benefits and positives that religion can provide are rarely highlighted in the mainstream media

OP-EDThe Catholic Church is probably one of the most controversial institutions in modern day Ireland. This is, in fairness, for very understandable reasons concerning the failings of the leadership of the Catholic Church in the past especially concerning the handling

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Listen up, Leo

Caoimhe Brennan sheds valuable light on the harsh reality of dealing with mental illness, and the HSE’s inability to provide adequate treatment

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“Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.” When I first heard Donal Walsh say this, the sixteen year old boy from Kerry, who sadly died of cancer in 2013, I cried. He was battling cancer and I was