Tag: Mental health
Watch: The mental health impacts of Direct Provision – Asylum seekers speak to TheCity.ie
Sonia from Cameroon, Julie from Uganda, and conference organiser Eoin (of Abolish Direct Provision Ireland) spoke to us about their personal experiences as asylum seekers.
Watch: State of mind in lockdown – the impact of quarantine on those managing mental health disorders
For many people, living with mental health disorders can be a daily struggle. What happens to those people when a global pandemic hits, and the country must go into lockdown?
‘I felt like I was being picked on all the time… I was mentally scarred’
Are Instagram filters affecting your health?
Filters. They’ve pretty much been around since the dawn of social media. Whether it’s a touch of sepia tone or the much loved dog-ears filter, you’d be hard pressed to find a social media user that hasn’t used a filter at some point. However, while the primitive filters of the past have simply changed the brightness and tone of an image, today’s filters offer users the opportunity to change their face shape, lengthen their legs and even make themselves appear slimmer, no tricky software required.
