7 Ways of Wellbeing started with working with the small business community in Townsville talking about how we could keep their staff healthy and productive. Then Mentally Healthy City Townsville (MHCT) moved onto education, students, older persons and the CALD (culturally and linguistically diverse) communities. Wellbeing is really important in these communities and particularly the environment that we live in, whether it's our working environment, learning environment, moving into a retirement village or crossing the seas to come to live in Townsville. The need to create a sense of belonging and how we continually work to improve our wellbeing and our brain health e.g. diet, exercise and doing the things we are really passionate about.
Language is the key to our life. Our interactions with others define our identity, fostering a sense of belonging within a group and shaping our connection to a country or land. Having a language means being embedded with a culture and with family. Having this, makes one feel good, not having this has an adverse impact. Language is important for mental health and for physical survival.
Prof Zoltan Sarnyai is a medically-trained PhD neuroscientist with an active research program in the neurobiological mechanisms of stress and psychiatric disorders, including drug addiction, schizophrenia and depression.
Financial worry has become a pervasive problem in Australia. Yet little is known about the effect of financial worries on people’s mental health and day-to-day decision making. To protect our community from the effects of financial worry, we urgently need to better understand these effects, hence invite you to participate in a survey with that purpose.
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought on many stressors within our communities such as physical distancing, unemployment, underemployment, just to name a few. However, these stressors are resulting in a significant increase in the escalating global brain health crisis. Issues such as depression, anxiety, substance abuse, loneliness from social isolation, and cognitive decline in adults have been major factors.
Helping the North's soldiers suffering post-traumatic stress disorder find better relief will be among the primary areas for research for a new charity being launched in Townsville.
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