Reachout

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Information overload: experts believe that being constantly distracted by social media, emails and texts can have an impact on our ability to be productive. Photograph: Thinkstock
Tech stress – how do you cope with it?

Call it what you will – information overload, the distraction trap or dot complicated as Randi Zuckerberg, sister of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg,(...)

Two-thirds of students use student counselling services and 58 per cent use the student health service. Some 87 per cent of students say it is reassuring to have a free counselling service on campus. Photograph: Thinkstock
Technology and wellbeing: Mental health needs its place on campus

Eighty-five per cent of students seek mental health information online, often as the first port of call, according to Reaching Out in College, a new s(...)

Vicky Kavanagh: ‘I went to work with a happy face but I was bottling up my emotions and not dealing with anything. I don’t know if I really wanted to end my life or just put it all on pause for a while.’ Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Suicide and schools: it’s okay to talk about it

Pastoral care: from primary right through to third level, it rumbles in the background of every educator’s mind. How can teachers support and help (...)

Perspective: 10 tips to deal with exam stress

The orals are over, your final projects have been submitted, and you’re finally in the home stretch with the written papers. Months of toiling away in(...)

Harry McCann (15), founder of Digital Youth Council, at home in Clane, Co Kildare. Photograph: Aidan Crawley
Online and in tune: teenagers lead the digital charge

On many a night at 11pm Eamon Judge wanders into his living room at home in Kinsale, Co Cork, to find his 16-year-old daughter, Ciara, engaged in a(...)

When surveyed about social media, young people said it would be much more beneficial if parents understood what was going on, rather than snooping. Photograph: Thinkstock
Website aims to bridge the technology gap

A new parents’ website is being launched by an online support organisation for young people’s mental health, reachout.com, at the second Technology fo(...)

(left to right) Brent Pope, GAA star Conor Cusack and Bressie at the inaugural Student Leaders Congress to promote positive mental health and encourage help-seeking behaviour at The RDS, Dublin. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
It’s ok not to feel ok, sports stars tell students

More than 4,000 students showed up to talk mental health awareness with some of Ireland’s best known sport stars and personalities in the RDS today.Si(...)

The stress of unemployment can drive many young people to drink. Photograph: Getty Images
Ask the Expert: My adult son is coming home drunk at night

Q My 22-year-old son moved back in with us about six months ago, mainly because he couldn’t afford to live independently. He dropped out of college tw(...)

The conference heard how online is the first place that young people turn to for support
Moving online out of the firing line

‘We’re trying to change the conversation and demystify mental health so that small problems don’t become unmanageable as people get older,” says Elain(...)