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Keeping Your Mind Healthy: 5 Ways To Wellbeing

Your mental wellbeing is really important to keep healthy, just like your physical health. Having good wellbeing can be difficult because your mind can dwell on the negative. But you can train your mind to be healthier! Here’s 5 things you can do every day to boost your mental health and wellbeing.  Connect  Connect with […]
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Checking Your Breasts For Changes

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Whether you call them boobs, breasts, pecs or whatever, as a young person, whatever sex you identify as – as we all have breast tissue – you should be checking them regularly for any changes. How often should I check my breasts? It is best to check your breasts […]
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6 Steps To Get a Better Night’s Sleep

Are you struggling to sleep at night? You might have got into a bad habit of having  late nights and need to get back to a regular routine and get enough sleep. Here’s our top tips to get a better nights sleep.   1. Stick to a regular bedtime   If you try to set yourself a daily routine of […]
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The Truth About Recovery – A Poem

Mental health is something that children and young people often contact Meic about. We were sent this poem by a young person, which describes the long and difficult road to recovery. The Truth About Recovery The truth is recovery is hard, really hard I know because I’m trying.I know that the truth is recovery is a […]
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Young male drinking a orange drink through a straw, buds in his ears and laptop on front of him. With the words 'Vaccination saves lives'

Meningitis and Measles: Protect Yourself

If you’re aged between 18 and 24 it’s likely that there are, or will be, big changes in your life. With these changes it’s really important that you keep up to date with your vaccinations. Meningitis and Measles are very serious diseases so you need to be vaccinated. There are lots of changes in your […]
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Grab The Meic: Lockdown Made Me Unhealthy

Jen is fed up of how unhealthy she’s become in lockdown and has Grabbed the Meic to ask for help. Here’s our advice to her. Grab the Meic was an opportunity to ask us about anything that was worrying you. The advice was not instant and was used to create anonymous blogs for the website […]
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Tips For Better Sleep

We’ve all had that feeling of needing to get a good night’s sleep, only to spend half the night awake wondering why we aren’t asleep! It’s a vicious cycle, and one that can be tricky to break; but there’s no use in wishing it goes of its own accord. Here’s the ultimate guide to securing […]
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How the HPV Vaccine Helps to Prevent Cancer

This week is Cervical Cancer Prevention Week so here at Meic we’re going to take a closer look at what you can do to help prevent it by taking a look at the HPV vaccine. What exactly does HPV mean? The Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) is the name given to a family of viruses. It’s […]
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A Resolution to Give Blood? The Facts

The New Year will soon be upon us and some of you might be thinking about donating blood as a new year’s resolution this year. If you’re thinking about it, but not sure what this involves, then check out some of our facts. Have you ever thought what it actually means to give blood? Is […]
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Grab the Meic: I’m Not Happy With My Weight

A Meic user is unhappy with their weight and has asked for help in this week’s Grab the Meic. Check out our advice below. Grab the Meic was an opportunity to ask us about anything that was worrying you. The advice was not instant and was used to create anonymous blogs for the website to […]
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HPV – What’s It All About?

  Immunisations! Injections! Vaccines that prevent you from different illnesses don’t stop when you’re a baby. Vaccinations are really important for young people and adults too, keeping you safe and well. The HPV vaccination is just one of these. Is this something to do with cancer? The HPV vaccine protects against cervical cancer. This is […]
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Measles – Are You Vaccinated?

An outbreak of measles has recently been declared by Public Health Wales in South East Wales. They are urging young people to check that their vaccinations are up to date. To find out what measles is, why it’s important to be vaccinated, and how to find out if you’ve been immunised, read on. What is […]
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