Mental Health and Wellbeing

I talk to people around me and socially interact in diverse conversations. However I do like to choose isolation at times walking dog for fresh air and excercise. All help with reduced Anxiety Stress and Anger management techniques. I also listen to people who feel they need to share their problems it often helps to share a veiwpoint.

first of all thank you so much.I listen a lot to music and go for walks in the park. Greenery, nature and access to local parks is so important for our mental health. This recent weekend there was a local festival in my area and listening to the free live music was so good for my mental health. It brought me real joy.

I think as the cost of living rises and rises, it is important that there are free events in London for people to enjoy, especially music, singing, dancing and art. And especially as we head into the dark and cold months of winter.

I also love going to the Library and browsing through the books. A library is so important for a local community's wellbeing and we must strive to keep our libraries in London open as much as we can.

Avoid the news. Money and work are the sole things that damage my mental health.

I listen a lot to music and go for walks in the park. Greenery, nature and access to local parks is so important for our mental health. This recent weekend there was a local festival in my area and listening to the free live music was so good for my mental health. It brought me real joy.

I think as the cost of living rises and rises, it is important that there are free events in London for people to enjoy, especially music, singing, dancing and art. And especially as we head into the dark and cold months of winter.

I also love going to the Library and browsing through the books. A library is so important for a local community's wellbeing and we must strive to keep our libraries in London open as much as we can.

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Be sensible be sensible or you have no sense at all. You wanted to say positive if what was given was negative. No positive will happen bwcUae it was out numbered by negativoty that started with you.
Swallow your sensibility your taking about.

Dear Sadiq,
You ask about positive things we do to support and improve our mental health and I appreciate the opportunity to respond to the questions.
I believe we all do the best possible within our capacity to keep ourselves in balance, but there is an urgent need for a reduction in the negative impacts on individuals, on families and on communities, of so much local council decision making. There needs to be a change in how the local and national political class so often enact their duties towards us as if we do not count... that is how it feels.
I believe the time is now for collaboration between communities and their elected representatives so that we no longer have decisions and planning made for us but decisions made with us.
Please please bring Citizen Assembly or any type of deliberative assembly into London Council decision making process .. it will help shift the current disconnect and distrust between decision makers and those who are impacted by the decisions.

1. For my own mental health
Getting on a bus and looking out the window, just enjoying the views.
Listening to the radio.
Having the opportunity to express myself creatively, politically and all points between.

2. To feel connected
Being given the opportunity to express my views on community decisions: being genuinely consulted by my Council, my Mayor, my MP. I am deeply disappointed with the lack of or 'pretend' community consultation from Lambeth Council.
Being engaged in an activity/talk/event with a group of people of different backgrounds and finding common values and interests.
Singing in a choir, playing an instrument (uke/recorder) together.

3. For my community
Contributing in different ways to the well being of others, being kind, volunteering.

Enjoy walking at least one hour a day , find a job or volunteer this will improve your wellbeing, it’s so important to be positive despite the hard life we are facing especially with the rent increase, so to avoid and help your mental just stay positive walk around and try to help yourself.

Go to the gym as much as I can. Encourage my friends to join me. Go for walks and speak up my mind.

Not travelling on the tube. With the screeching, and the begging and the unbearable heat.

Horses. Even just heading down to your local stables and petting them will improve your sense of well-being.

Local authorities introducing thoughtful policy. As a Redbridge council tenant I am so tired of the short sighted decision making - making our lives miserable on the estate.

A person's mental well-being is also very important. Mental well-being is related to the mind where positive thinking, contentment, respect for others, gratefulness, patience, sympathy and understanding for others emerge. If the above Values are missing in the mind then happiness and peace will not be there, and mental well-being will be at a low ebb. For example, if a person lives with his family in a comfortable secure housing, but each member of the household has his own independent ideas, likes and dislikes – and only gives importance to his own thoughts and ideas and does not appreciate others’ viewpoints – the result will be argument and unhappiness in the family. Divorce, abuse and separation will take place as there is no understanding for one another in the family – and mental well-being of the members will be in turmoil.

In order to spread a peaceful, stable and happy mental well-being, the following considerations should be made:

To know and understand what mental well-being is, and on which Values mental well-being has its foundation,

To understand the importance of mental well-being,

To understand that mental well-being depends on one’s relationship with other human beings,

To know how to strengthen human relationships,

To know that understanding others’ viewpoint and having respect for others is the first step in building any human relationship,

To understand that helpful and selfless service towards others, is the key to developing a stable and lasting human relationship, which in turn will provide a stable mental well-being to both the giver and the receiver,

To know that mental well-being can stop violence and crime in society,

The Council should provide opportunities and pointers for selfless service, for volunteers to render such service.

I have been suffering with mental health issues for more than 10 years. Normally I don't think about it every day although the medication I take does affect my physical health negatively. When I feel down and negative about my health, my family members would always remind me to stay positive. There are some famous people out there such as John Nash the winner of Nobel Prize for mathematics who suffered from mental health issues for decades and he managed to live until his nineties while making numerous achievements. I always looked up to strong people like him and I think if he managed to live a successful and relatively happy family life I will be able to do the same. I am very grateful that I have my family members for my support and also some good co-workers that support and inspire me. I believe having a sense of purpose is very important: I can be a role model of resilience for other people in similar situation to me.

The only connection I have is via online groups, neighbour noise group to share our horrific lived experience and despair. A strong recommendation is quicker enforcement of law. My tenant has not paid rent since November and had notice to vacate by the 6th November 2021, I lost the sale of my property and I have been told I could wait another 12 weeks for a hearing, the result is that I have had no money since the rent has stopped being paid and am stuck unsupported whilst the tenant has taken my property, not responding to my estate agent and not paying any rent and there is nothing I can do. Can the legal system not delegate the power and decision for eviction and bailiffs to another body which is faster for cases where all the requirements have been met by the landlord (gas safety, tenancy agreements section 21 and 8... etc) ?

Talking to friends and family and engaging in an online neighbour noise support group about the neighbour noise and ASB issues I face and the negative impact it has had and is continuing to have on my health and well being and impacting every part of my life. I am trying to engage with appropriate and necessary agencies to try tackle the problem and get support and propose changes to law and hold on to life and my job (council/MP/police/employer/NAS).