Mental Health Awareness Week

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and this year it focuses on an aspect vital to everyone: sleep.

Just think of how not getting enough sleep for one night can leave you tired and grumpy, affecting your ability to carry out your normal daily routine.  Extended periods of poor, little or no sleep, can take this to extremes and severly depletes your reserves and coping mechanisms.

A good night's sleep is crucial to your body as well as your mind, as it is while you sleep that your body heals itself and your brain processes everything you've done that day allowing you to wake up rested and refreshed.

But often, it is only when we lack such things that we realise the true importance of them.  There is a lot of truth in the saying 'you don't know what you've got until it's gone'.

So the Mental Health Foundation are working to promote the importance of sleep this Mental Health Awareness Week.  

If you want to find out more about sleep, Mental Health Awareness Week or the work that the Mental Health Foundation do, click here.