Occupational Therapy

🤔 In today’s #FridayFAQ, we answer:

What is CloudRx❓

Scroll through the post to find out more and check out our blogpost:

https://edinburghpractice.com/introducing-cloudrx-online-pharmacy-medication-delivered-direct-to-your-door/#popup-maker

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Happy Monday! This week, `M` is for Maternal & Newborn Health - the focus for #WorldHealthDay2025! 💛

Today, we are spotlighting the importance of supporting mothers and newborns everywhere, because healthy beginnings shape healthy futures.

Here are some key messages from the WHO:

🌼 We can end preventable maternal & newborn mortality

🌼 Women`s health needs to extend beyond simply surviving childbirth

🌼 Access to sexual & reproductive health services underpin maternal outcomes

🌼 Investing in all aspects of maternal & newborn health brings immense benefits

#MaternalHealth #NewbornHealth #WorldHealthDay

Happy Monday everyone! This week, our `M` word is for Masking!

👤 Masking can be exhausting - constantly camouflaging traits to fit in and avoid judgement. For many neurodivergent individuals, it`s a survival strategy, but it often comes at the cost of mental and emotional wellbeing. Unmasking is a journey toward self-acceptance and authenticity and neurotypical people can play a huge role in lessening the load. Let`s create a world where everyone feels safe to be themselves! 💛

#Neurodiversity #Unmasking #MentalHealthAwareness

This week, `M` is for Maladaptive Thinking!

🧠 Maladaptive thinking can sometimes prevent us from making adjustments that are in our own best interest. Recognising these thought patterns is the first step towards change. By identifying and challenging these thoughts, we can start to reframe them with more balanced, helpful perspectives.

Small changes can make a big difference! 💫

#MentalHealth #MaladaptiveThinking #CognitiveDistortions

It’s neurodiversity celebration week! 🥳

This week’s #FridayFAQ is:

What is neurodiversity❓

Scroll through the post to find out or visit:
https://www.neurodiversityweek.com/introduction

#neurodiversity #neurodiversitycelebrationweek #neurodiversitycelebrationweek2025

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Also known as “psychological flexibility”, mental flexibility is being fully aware of one’s thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations in the present moment, accepting them as they are without judgment, and then choosing to act in accordance with our values regardless of our current experience. 💬👁️❤️

In other words, being aware, open, and engaged.

Greater psychological flexibility is linked with higher wellbeing and lower stress, depression, anxiety, and insomnia. Low flexibility is correlated with lower levels of mental health. 👌

Increasing psychological flexibility requires practice. By employing mindfulness techniques and metaphors, we can bring more mental flexibility into our everyday lives. 🧘🏽

Scroll through the post to find out more, and check out:

https://www.actmindfully.com.au/about-act/
https://www.actmindfully.com.au/free-stuff/

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💊 Medication can sometimes help improve mental health. There are four main types:

1) Anti-depressants: for moderate to severe depression.

2) Anti-anxiety drugs (anxiolytics): to feel calmer and improve sleep.

3) Anti-psychotics: to reduce delusions, hallucinations, severe anxiety, and mania.

4) Mood stabilisers: to help with extreme mood swings, such as bipolar mania.

But how do we know when to take medication?

🥼Your doctor will discuss your symptoms, their severity, and the possible benefits and side-effects of medication. Medication often works best in combination with other treatments, like talking therapy. If medication is offered, you do not have to take it. You can always ask for alternative treatment options.

⚠️ However, stopping medication abruptly can be dangerous. Always consult your doctor first.

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Happy International Women’s Day! 🎉

This year’s IWD theme is:

Collectively, we can Accelerate Action for gender equality. 💪

Scroll through the post to hear some of the team’s thoughts on how we can Accelerate Action for gender equality. Check out the team celebrating with some cupcakes (and wearing purple!). 💜 🧁

#AccelerateAction #IWD2025

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Experiencing meaning in life is having the feeling that our lives have coherence, purpose, and significance. ❤️🎯

Countless studies have linked a greater sense of meaning with:

1) Higher levels of psychological wellbeing.
2) Lower levels of depression and anxiety.
3) Greater resilience after experiencing negative events.
4) Reduced stress.
5) Reduced suicidal ideation and self-harm.
6) Higher self-esteem, self-acceptance, and positive self-image.

We tend to experience meaning through relationships, work, hobbies, helping others, and spirituality. It depends on what we value. Values are the qualities that we want to see in our actions, for example, honesty, kindness, compassion, and creativity.

We can increase meaning in our lives. Start by compiling a list of values (use the internet for inspiration). Circle the ones that matter the most and ask yourself how you could behave in ways that are more in line with your values. The more you do this day-to-day, the more likely you are to create a story that you can make sense of, that has purpose and significance. 🌟

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