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How to sleep better

This guide offers tips on how to sleep better - looking at improving the quality of your sleep, what causes sleep disorders and possible solutions, top tips from a sleep doctor, and a sleep diary template to help you keep track of your sleep.

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Ten top tips for good sleep

Regularly getting a good night’s sleep is crucial to ensuring we enjoy good mental health. We have come up with these top ten tips on how to get a good night’s sleep.

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Work-life balance

What a good work-life balance means, how you can help yourself and how your workplace can help.

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Managing mental health while working shifts

Shift work means working outside a 9-5 schedule, and can often mean working evenings, early mornings, and weekends. This type of work can pose unique challenges for our mental health.

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The diary of a sleepless night

I have real trouble with sleep, so much so that not sleeping has become a constant in my life.

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Sleep: finding our confidence with sleep – school pack

Our school pack on sleep provides the materials and resources needed to support pupils to understand what good sleep means, why good sleep is important for our mental health and wellbeing, and how to maintain good sleep health.

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Anxiety

The symptoms and causes of anxiety, and what help is available.

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Sleep and our mental health

Research into the impact sleeping badly can have on our mental health, and recommendations to Government to incorporate sleep into their mental health and wellbeing plans.

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The impact of sleep on health and well-being

A research report on sleep and mental health, produced for Mental Health Awareness Week 2011.

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Ten top tips for good sleep

When we don’t get good sleep, it can contribute to a range of problems including depression and anxiety. But it can sometimes feel hard to achieve amid the pressures of daily life. To help, we have come up with these top ten tips on how to get a good night’s sleep.

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