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30/06/2025

16/06/2025

🌼 A Gentle Reminder: What You See Isn’t Always What’s Felt 🌼

It’s natural to assume that someone’s outward appearance reflects how they’re feeling inside, but the truth is often much more complex. Many people are carrying unseen struggles, including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex PTSD (C-PTSD), even if they look okay on the outside.

PTSD and C-PTSD affect people in deeply personal ways, and their symptoms aren’t always visible. If you or someone you care about is living with PTSD or C-PTSD, here are some of the challenges they may be facing:

✨ Re-experiencing Symptoms
Flashbacks that feel as though the trauma is happening again.
Intrusive thoughts, memories, or distressing dreams.
Sudden waves of fear, panic, or physical discomfort.

🌿 Avoidance Symptoms
Avoiding places, people, or conversations.
Feeling emotionally numb or disconnected from others.
Struggling to remember details of the trauma.

🔥 Alertness and Reactivity Symptoms
Always being on high alert, feeling unsafe even in safe places.
Difficulty sleeping or concentrating.
Feeling irritable, overwhelmed, or easily startled.

❤️ Changes in Mood and Emotions
Trouble trusting others or feeling disconnected.
Persistent feelings of fear, sadness, guilt, or shame.
Loss of interest in things that once brought joy.

💙 For those with C-PTSD, additional challenges may include:
Struggles with regulating emotions, leading to intense emotional highs or lows.
A distorted sense of self-worth, often feeling 'not good enough' or broken.
Difficulty forming or maintaining relationships due to trust and attachment issues.

💛 Kindness and understanding go a long way.
Just because someone looks okay doesn’t mean they aren’t struggling. PTSD and C-PTSD can be isolating, but a moment of patience, a listening ear, or a compassionate gesture can mean everything to someone fighting battles you can’t see.

💙 Be kind. Be understanding. You never know how much it might help. 💙

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Find out more about the symptoms of PTSD and C-PTSD here: https://www.ptsduk.org/what-is-ptsd/symptoms-of-ptsd/

08/06/2025

We have some fantastic NEW TECH available to monitor falls
Affordable and reliable.

More details to follow…..
If you are a care establishment or looking at this for a loved in their own homes - get in touch for more information.

Enquiries@retaingroup.co.uk

Sentinare 3 is AltumView's latest privacy-preserving fall detection and activity monitoring sensor, with more friendly form factor, more powerful voice call ...

03/06/2025

If you need urgent help for your mental health, you can call 111 and select the mental health option.

➡️ https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/mental-health-services/where-to-get-urgent-help-for-mental-health/

02/06/2025

🌤️ Join us for Joyful June and discover daily actions to appreciate what's good, even in tough times

https://actionforhappiness.org/calendar

02/06/2025

💙 Join us this PTSD Awareness Month by coming along to one of our webinars: Trauma Explained: Understanding PTSD & C-PTSD 💙

✨ Trauma Explained: Understanding PTSD & C-PTSD - webinar
📍 Online via Zoom
🎟 Pay What You Can tickets (Free / £5 / £10)

🗓 Thursday 5th June 2025 | 7:30pm – 9:00pm
or
🗓 Wednesday 11th June 2025 | 11:30am – 1:00pm

👉 Book your place here: https://www.ptsduk.org/trauma-explained-webinar/

Led by PTSD UK’s very own Rachel Bilski – trauma specialist, speaker, and someone with lived experience – this live 90-minute webinar will unpack the causes, symptoms, and treatments of PTSD and C-PTSD in a way that’s clear, compassionate, and full of evidence-based information.

Whether you’ve been personally affected, support someone who has, or simply want to learn more, this is your chance to gain real insight and tools to better navigate trauma and recovery.

✅ What PTSD & C-PTSD really are
✅ Why they happen
✅ How they can affect day-to-day life
✅ What recovery can look like
✅ How you can help yourself or a loved one

👉 Book your place here:

Thursday 5th June 2025 | 7:30pm – 9:00pm: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/ptsduk/1637529

Wednesday 11th June 2025 | 11:30am – 1:00pm: https://app.tickettailor.com/event/ev_5878531

💙 Let's come together this PTSD Awareness Month to learn, connect and support one another.

29/05/2025

Mental health is shaped by social and structural factors—yet too often, mental health policies fail to address them.

28/05/2025

Effective training in healthcare is crucial for enhancing skills and improving patient outcomes.

Here are some strategies to consider:

1) Use real-life scenarios to engage learners;

2) Foster a collaborative environment for knowledge sharing;

3) Implement continuous feedback for skill enhancement.

By prioritising these methodologies, organizations can empower their teams and ensure high-quality care.

24/05/2025

Thursday 22 May 2025 - THG Nutrition Limited recalls Myprotein Gooey Filled Cookie, Double Chocolate & Caramel because of undeclared wheat (gluten) - https://www.food.gov.uk/news-alerts/alert/fsa-aa-26-2025

22/05/2025

Vomiting or diarrhoea in spring? It could still be . 🤢
Despite being known as the "winter vomiting bug", norovirus can spread all year round, and we’re seeing higher than usual levels this spring. Find out what to do to stop the spread. 👇
https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2022/11/17/norovirus-what-to-do-if-you-catch-it-and-helping-to-stop-the-spread/

20/05/2025

We are now running 3 Day First Aid at Work courses in all our Branches, please contact us for dates, it will save you £££ compared to the other large First Aid companies