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The site will gradually build during the two-year campaign,
aiming to provide the internet's most fulsome and comprehensive
resource on issues of mental health and being. When it launches
in May 2008, the site's main features will include:
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Ruby's Room: A three-minute weekly programme hosted exclusively on
the web. Every week Ruby will invite viewers to email her with
their problems or experiences on a particular mental health and
wellbeing topic. Her opening episode will focus on stress, but
future episodes will be decided by the contents of Ruby's inbox.
During the programmes, Ruby will interview experts, suggest
simple, practical ways of dealing with the week's hot topic and
may even visit her viewers to talk to them face to face about the
problems they face and need help with.
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Wellbeing Guides: Kathy Sykes presents four short films
exclusively for Headroom. The first is a general film about
wellbeing and the importance of taking care of mental health
alongside physical health. There are then more specific films
covering stress, anxiety and depression. More films will be
introduced during the course of the two year campaign.
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The Mind Spa: The Mind Spa is a suite of interactive tools with
which individuals can explore areas of their lives that can
affect mood and wellbeing by answering questions and completing
short activities. The zones have been developed by Peter
Kinderman, Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of
Liverpool.
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Guests entering the Mind Spa will be asked to complete an initial
assessment called "How do you feel?" This will be the starting
point and provides the basis for informing the questions in later
zones.
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This zone will examine overall mood and will aim to
identify areas in the user's life which they could benefit from
taking positive steps to improve.
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Following that there are five
wellbeing zones to work through. The zones are:
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Mood: will identify symptoms related to depression and anxiety,
two of the most common mental health conditions.
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Drink: will invite users to fill out a drinks calendar in which
they record their alcohol intake over the past week, which will
be compared to established measures of healthy alcohol
consumption.
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Food and Fitness: will invite users to fill out a calendar with
all the physical activity and the food they have eaten over the
past week, examining the user's attitudes to food and the amount
of exercise they do through a series of multiple choice
questions.
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Self-esteem: will examine how people regard themselves and how
they think other people view them. The assessment will use a
combination of word clouds and questions and will provide some
psychological context on how self-image affects our mental
wellbeing and how it can be affected by conditions such as
compulsive behaviours and depression.
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Social life: is designed to assess the level and nature of an
individual's social contacts and relationships, it will invite
users to fill out a calendar with all social contact in the past
week in the following contexts – work, education, volunteering,
arts and culture, faith and meaning, family and community, public
services.
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Once each zone is completed, the results will be explained and
users can then register for a personal life coach plan which will
show recommended actions based on the individual's results.
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Most
of the recommendations are straightforward, like getting in
touch with an old friend or taking a regular 20-minute walk, but
they can make a surprising difference to how good you feel!
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Video Nation
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Video Nation, the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s nationwide community film
project, will produce a number of short films on mental health
and wellbeing for the Headroom Campaign. The films will show
ordinary people discussing their mental health problems and how
they've overcome them in their daily lives.
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Other
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The site will also provide enhanced programme support for
campaign-related programmes such as ´óÏó´«Ã½ Three's Make My Body
Younger.
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Simple Pleasures, a series of short films from well-known
faces and celebrities, sharing the simple pleasures that help
lift their mood.
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Your Stories, a place for individuals to post their own
inspirational tales.
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An aggregation of all the information and mental health content
from across bbc.co.uk.
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