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Hi, I'm Gem. I'm a ex-tester (though always a tester in my heart), and founder of SelfCare Backpack. I help people, especially those in tech, with their self care and mental health. I'm a trainee therapist, and offer talks and workshops all around building up a little toolbox (or backpack) or self care for when you need it.
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Mental health
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<h4>So what is mental health? </h4><div>Typically, when discussing mental health, it refers to an individual's psychological and emotional well-being. This differs from mental illness, which is focused on conditions that can affect our mental lobbying. The conditions that affect mental health have a scale of severity and symptoms, but they can be treated and managed when identified. Awareness of the mental health of yourself and others is important in managing your own health and supporting others. <br><br>
</div><h4>Have you got any examples? </h4><div>Mental health problems include stress, anxiety, and depression. Other examples of mental health problems are things like bipolar disorders, It's a friendlier and post traumatic stress disorder. <br><br>
</div><h4>And why should we be aware of our mental health? </h4><div>Raising awareness of mental health can help people recognize personal mental health problems as well as mental health problems within others. Awareness also very encrypts us to support others. Sometimes it can feel like you can't talk about your mental health because of feelings like stigma around having mental ill health, and raising awareness helps to change the stigma around mental ill health. <br><br>
</div><h4>So how can mental health problems affect us? </h4><div>Mental health problems can affect various aspects of daily life with symptoms such as difficulty with concentration or sleeping, avoiding contact with others, loss of self confidence or self esteem just to name a few. But ultimately, as mentalhealth.org.uk states, certain symptoms are common in specific mental health problems. But noted people behave in exactly the same way when they are and well.</div> image
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Harvest your testing skills at TestBash Autumn, a Ministry of Testing software testing conference happening on the 22nd and 23rd of March 2023
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It's not a TestBash without 99 Second Talks!
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Grow your testing skills at TestBash Spring, a Ministry of Testing software testing conference happening on the 23rd of March 2023.
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Let's explore testing topics together with Lean Coffee
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Watch this awesome talk by Gem Hill at TestBash Manchester 2017
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