Thought For The Day – Monday 12th October 2026
World Mental Health Day
Saturday the 10th of October was “World Mental Health Day”.
The theme for 2026 was: “Lived experiences heard: Real voices, real change”.
We all have Mental Health.
We all have a mind, a brain, and emotions.
Mental Health affects everyone.
Our brain, our mind, is the most complex, powerful, and sensitive part of us.
Our brain, our mind, needs to be handled with great, and loving, care.
We also need to care for, and love, the brain, our mind, of other people.
We need to be kind to our mind.
We need to be kind to the minds of others.
Heart speaks to heart.
Brain speaks to brain.
Mind speaks to mind.
Some people have particular, and specific, Mental Health challenges.
Massive and outstanding support is always available for all: at home; in school; in the community; through so many wonderful Charities, such as “Samaritans”, “Childline”, and “Mind” and the brilliant and expert medical care of Doctors, Nurses, Councillors, and Psychologists.
In the many challenges, and many positive opportunities, of life, we always remember the following:
People are loved, precious, sacred, treasured, and valued beyond words, far, far more than they know.
We are us. We are all unique. There is only one of us. We embrace, and greatly value: our special identity; the magical gifts we each bring; and the human vulnerabilities which are key to our beautiful nature.
Connecting, sharing, supporting, and talking helps alleviate problems and stress. “A problem shared is a problem halved”. Talking is like easing the top off a fizzy drink (be careful of too much sugar). The fizzy drink is our emotions and experiences. The bottle is us. If we take the top of the bottle off suddenly, having shaken the fizzy drink, the liquid spills everywhere. Instead, we very carefully, delicately, and gently, ease the top of the bottle off. This is what talking does.
A healthy lifestyle (exercise, such as that displayed at another brilliant “House Rugby” on Saturday, diet, water, sleep, reading, giving to others) greatly helps our well-being, and the well-being of others.
We must be kind to, supporting, and taking notice of, others. Checking in. Looking out. Looking after. Encouraging. Empowering. You got this. We got this.
Very challenging times do pass and, with resilience and support, become more manageable. There can be, and is, sunshine, and a rainbow, after the heavy rain and the storms. For some, such suffering, and pain, is unimaginable, and beyond words. Hannah Lewis M.B.E., pictured below, saw the Nazis kill her mother in The Holocaust, after her mother sacrificed her life for Hannah, when Hannah was eight. Hannah once said, when visiting T.B.S.H.S.,: “I learnt to live alongside the pain”. And, though Hannah always sheds a very moving tear, when Hannah shares her story, Hannah lives a beautiful life, smiling again and continuing the most outstanding and beautiful legacy of her mother, and father, as such an inspirational and life-changing daughter, wife, mother, grandmother, citizen, and human being.
