Follow the Battling Suicide Tour and help us make a difference on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter ! Brand new rain falling on old dirty summer follows me on a run through Durham. That fresh smell of earth and gravel and England. After a nine days on the Battling Suicide Tour my brain is cotton wool. We have met so many […]
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Follow the Battling Suicide Tour and help us make a difference on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter ! After five days on the road there is a recurring theme. People are killing themselves after being failed by the state. I think it’s important to say that it’s not always the fault of the people involved, although
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Follow the Battling Suicide Tour and help us make a difference on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter ! She started crying as she walked up to the big white space on the side of our bus. It’s a memorial to the people that have died. “We are asking people to write the names of loved ones
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The 5asideCHESS team set out on the Battling Suicide Tour on July 19th, raising awareness of suicide prevention and promoting good mental health. All through building connections and chatting. And after two weeks are happy to confirm a residency at the: Edinburgh Fringe Festival, at the GrassMarket from August 6th to the 31st Close to
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I’ve just been standing over there, next to the little silver bin in the kitchen, biting my nails down one by one. Fingers, not toes, don’t worry. It’s time to try and make this blog make sense with my new litter of naked mole rats at the end of my palms. Flecked green paint skirts
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Social Isolation and loneliness are pretty much unbounded. That is to say they have no bounds. That is to say people everywhere are affected by it. That is to say there is no fixed abode to the work we do at 5asideCHESS. So last week we went on a little tour of the North, playing
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What is 5asideCHESS? Do you need 5 players? No, wait, you need 10 players, right? Hold on, is this something to do with football? Thankyou generic person in generic cafe, they are all great questions, but sadly you are generically wrong on all generic accounts. The questions are valid, though, so let me explain what
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Words By: Alex Tomlin Anxiety, is a p****. There’s no two ways about it, the seemingly perpetual dread that feels like it’s never going to end until you spontaneously combust or pass out. I spent a long time trying to make the latter happen through various different methods, mainly alcohol. However, my first point of
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At 5asideCHESS we believe strongly in the art of conversation as a prevention and cure, short or long term, to poor mental health in all of its capacities. As part of our Handling Headspace Series, we asked three people to offer their best tips on dealing with Anxiety. Here is the first by a young
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See our Latest Schedule Here Sometimes the most obvious things in the world only become clear once we have experienced them for ourselves. “You’re still the same person, despite where you are.” “He’s no good for you.” “Marmite is only good with butter.” Love those facts or hate them, they are all things we only ever
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