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Mental health services in the west are being stretched to the limit in the wake of swingeing health cuts imposed by the HSE.

The word depression is a much misused term. When people are feeling a little sad, moody or down for a short period they often say they are depressed. But in reality they are really just having an “off” day or week and their mood will lift shortly.

At a recent Midlands region AGM in the Grand Hotel Moate, accredited members of the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP) voiced their concerns for clients who are attending counsellors and psychotherapists who are not qualified or trained in the area.

A new €8.8 million child and adolescent mental health services inpatient unit, which replaces St Anne’s Children’s Centre, Taylor’s Hill, opened at Merlin Park this week.

See Change in association with Mayo County Community Forum will host a public meeting about mental health stigma, and what can be done to reduce it, in the TF Royal Hotel, Castlebar, on Monday November 29 at 8pm.

HeadsUp has teamed up with Ark to call upon people across Mayo to perform acts of random kindness (or Arks) this Sunday, October 10, to mark World Mental Health Day.

The HSE’s Mayo mental health recovery team is organising a family education course entitled Recover and the Family. The aim of the course is to give relatives, friends, and family members of people with mental health difficulties an opportunity to take time out to reflect and meet others in the same situation as themselves.

The International College for Personal and Professional Development, a third level adult education college in Garden Vale, Athlone, Co Westmeath, will hold an open day in Galway next week. This college provides training and education in the arena of the helping professions, in particular the field of counselling and psychotherapy, creativity, expressive arts, and spirituality.

A local company, which operates a software programme to help children with learning difficulties, has launched new software aimed at offsetting the onset and progress of Alzheimer’s disease.

Two Westmeath charities which support people with disabilities and mental ill-health are to benefit from combined grant funding of over €100,000.