Mental Wellbeing LRRH by

Perinatal Mental Health Midwife

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2024-10-09 08:28:29 UTC

My name is Emily Seddon. I am a mental health specialist midwife at University Hospital Dorset. This is at the very bottom of the United Kingdom and I live by the sea.

I am passionate about mental health of women, staff and the future generations.

I am here for on-going support of staff, students and patients at the Lira Regional Referral Hospital and Lira University

Here are my contact details:

emily.seddon@uhd.nhs.uk

Mental Health of staff in Uganda

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2024-10-09 08:29:42 UTC

A paper about maternal mental health diagnosis by midwives in uganda

Workplace toolkit

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2024-10-09 09:04:06 UTC

What is needed to create a mentally healthy organisation

How can you care for yourself?

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2024-10-09 18:27:59 UTC

Track your mood

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2024-10-09 18:31:50 UTC

How are you feeling? Take some time to think about how you are feeling each day.

If you notice there is a pattern of unhappiness, then you should consider some self care to improve mental wellbeing

Music for wellbeing

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2024-10-09 18:38:40 UTC

If you are finding it hard to relax , why not listen to a playlist , it is free and may help you reduce worry or stress

What is burnout?

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2024-10-09 18:46:04 UTC

Burnout is a gradual process over time. Signs you have burnout could be attributed to stress, depression or anxiety and as such could go unnoticed and unaddressed.

Burnout symptoms can be recognised physically, emotionally and behaviourally. Most people will experience a combination of the symptoms below that includes severe exhaustion, feeling cut off from others, and feeling they have no hope, energy or reason for things to change.

If looking for signs that someone is burnt out, it can often be recognized by someone’s behaviour both at work and home.

They might be less productive, absent from work, excessively tired or appear irritable. Sometimes people can rely on excessive alcohol or drugs and/or their eating habits could change.

Why are you so tired?

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2024-10-09 18:47:22 UTC

Over the day you will have many things that can make your energy levels less and it is being aware the greater things you have, the more it can affect your mental wellbeing

How to relax and other tips

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2024-10-09 18:56:28 UTC

Trying a body scan might be a way of you being able to connect with all parts of your body and relax in a deeper way

There are also other tips on the link that you might want to try

'Grounding' yourself in nature

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2024-10-09 19:02:38 UTC

Getting into nature – getting out into a green environment such as a park or on grass, is especially good for you. Even caring for your plants or animals can still help you get some benefits from nature.

What does this mean?

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2024-10-09 19:15:10 UTC

WHO maternal mental health

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2024-10-10 05:09:37 UTC

What does the WHO say about maternal mental health?

Screening tools for Depression (PHQ-9)

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2024-10-10 05:15:06 UTC

You can use this screening tool for depression.

Interpretation:

Provisional Diagnosis and Proposed Treatment Actions

PHQ-9 Score Depression Severity Proposed Treatment Actions

0 – 4 None-minimal None

5 – 9 Mild Watchful waiting; repeat PHQ-9 at follow-up

10 – 14 Moderate Treatment plan, considering counselling, follow-up and/or pharmacotherapy

15 – 19 Moderately Severe Active treatment with pharmacotherapy and/or psychotherapy

20 – 27 Severe Immediate initiation of pharmacotherapy and, if severe impairment or poor response to therapy, expedited referral to a mental health specialist for psychotherapy and/or collaborative management

Screening tool for Anxiety (GAD-7)

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2024-10-10 05:27:46 UTC

Level of anxiety severity:

Score 0-4: Minimal Anxiety
Score 5-9: Mild Anxiety
Score 10-14: Moderate Anxiety
Score greater than 15: Severe Anxiety

The White Ribbon Alliance - Uganda

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2024-10-10 05:37:07 UTC

What is trauma?

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2024-10-10 06:47:35 UTC

It can be hard to consider that you have experienced trauma. You may not even recognise or name it as 'trauma'

There are many aspects to trauma and you may have experienced one, or a combination of several

Free online training about birth trauma

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2024-10-14 16:14:30 UTC

A course with training in regards to:

What is birth trauma?

Preventing birth trauma

Trauma-informed care

The password for accessing the course is:

Understanding*birth%trauma

Mental Health Uganda

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Anxiety workbook

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2024-10-15 19:16:11 UTC

This workbook explores management skills and recognising challenges with anxiety

Building confidence at work workbook

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2024-10-15 19:17:39 UTC

Begin to recognise your strengths in the workplace and how you can build confidence and compassion in your profession

Depression workbook

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2024-10-15 19:19:08 UTC

look at symptoms and note experiences, as well as thinking about the importance of connections and self-care.

Exploring emotions workbook

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2024-10-15 19:20:43 UTC

to explore the role and purpose of emotions and to introduce some coping skills

5 Steps to mental wellbeing workbook

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2024-10-15 19:23:53 UTC

Introducing the CLANG model:

connect

learn

be active

take notice

give

Workbook to think about your current wellbeing in relation to the 5 ways

How to manage tiredness (fatigue) workbook

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2024-10-15 19:27:21 UTC

Understanding why sleep is so important to function and recover

Recognise your strength workbook

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2024-10-15 19:28:57 UTC

recognise your own strengths and how we might build upon these

Introduction to mindfulness workbook

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2024-10-15 19:30:04 UTC

Mindfulness is a term that many of us have come across but it can be confusing. We have created some resources to help unpick what is meant by mindfulness and explore how you might use these skills.

The window of tolerance workbook

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2024-10-15 19:31:48 UTC

The 'Window of Tolerance' model and how it can help ourselves and others. The workbook will begin to explore skills that help us learn to stay more within our window of tolerance

Self compassion

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2024-10-15 19:33:14 UTC

Thinking about how we can be compassionate to ourselves and to others is an important topic for us. Compassion is one of the most powerful ways of coping and building resilience.

Manage stress and anxiety in pregnancy

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2024-10-15 19:35:15 UTC

Self Care

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Relaxation and grounding

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Mindfulness

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Acceptance

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Gratitude

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2024-10-15 19:38:31 UTC

Recognising anxiety thinking

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2024-10-15 19:39:00 UTC

Rewriting the story

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2024-10-15 19:39:46 UTC

Maternal mental wellbeing recorded presentation

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2024-10-15 20:04:39 UTC

Recorded presentation by Emily about mental health for pregnant women

Maternal psychosis a recorded presentation

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2024-10-15 20:08:10 UTC

MBRRACE UK 2024

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2024-10-15 20:12:23 UTC

Latest UK report compiling lessons learnt for maternity services

Black Maternal Mental Health Week 23-29th Sept

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2025-05-06 09:49:50 UTC

Black Maternal Mental Health Week UK is an annual event dedicated to raising awareness about the mental health challenges faced by Black mothers.

Black Maternal Mental Health Week 2025 aims to improve mental health outcomes for Black mothers and their children. Through collective action, self-advocacy, and collaboration, we can create a future where Black mothers and children thrive, both mentally and emotionally.

Lets celebrate!

UHDmentalhealthresources — 2025-05-06 09:59:56 UTC

Emily presented all our work at the Royal College of Psychiatry in London.

Talking about the project, working together and the future