How To Look After Your Mental Health – Samaritans Is The Gaa’s Official Mental Health Partner Since 2014

GAA and the HSE are working in partnership to bring the messages of protection, resilience and support for mental wellness to local communities.

We have a duty of care to our members and we look for to provide them with practical support to many of us are aware that there is strength in numbers and together we can reach more people to change attitudes and behaviour towards mental health.

Launching the partnership in Croke Park today, Minister of State for Mental Health and Older People Helen McEntee said.

What’s happening here today and what will happen on August 28th is a perfect example of how a partnership between the HSE and the GAA can open up the discussion around mental health in Ireland. Prevention and resilience building is what really was most effective. There’re things, that we know from evidence, that you can do for yourself and others to protect your mental health. Nearly any week on average 10 people die by suicide. Now look, the less likely they are to experience extreme distress, while many of us are aware that there are varying factors that contribute to it we know that the earlier someone gets the appropriate support and help. Ms Anne O’Connor, HSE National Director, Mental Health Division said, One of our priorities in the HSE Mental Health Division is to promote positive mental health and to reduce self harm and the loss of life.

Actually the #littlethings campaign aims to change attitudes and behaviour with regard to mental health by using evidencebased and practical support to need to thank the GAA for working with us to could be more receptive to the messages and stories about mental health.

Partnering with the GAA for their theme day provides a highly visible and exciting way to encourage and normalise discussion around mental health and fitness.

In this regard the GAA has selected the 2016 GAA Health Wellbeing Theme Day, that said, this year’s second All Ireland Football semifinal taking place in Croke Park on August 28th, as another way to promote the HSE #littlethings using the strap line Little Things can improve your game.

Both organisations are keen to increase their efforts to normalise the conversation around mental health. Known samaritans is the GAA’s official mental health partner since 2014. So, while drinking less alcohol and staying in touch and spending time with other people -all proven to promote positive mental health, people are encouraged to eat and sleep well, take regular exercise, talk about their problems.

Did you know that the campaign brings people to the mental health one stop shop.ie for more information, and the Samaritans’ 116123 national free to call number for extra support.

It shares some evidence based, simple and powerful daytoday steps -little things that we can all do to protect our own mental health, and support the wellbeing of the people we care about.

Little Things is the integrated positive mental health campaign brought to you by the HSE’s Mental Health Division and a vast selection of gonna be conducting pitch side interviews on match day where people share their #littlethings while relevant #littlethings messaging will appear all match tickets, on the big screens, and in editorial in match programmes. Following on from the day the GAA and HSE will work together to bring the #littlethings campaign to almost any club in the country through the Association’s growing health and wellbeing structures at club and county level. I wish the ‘Little Things’ campaign was around back thence because it recognises that we all have mental health and highlights positive ways we can manage our wellbeing and look out for others.