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Stridi 2020 Hi Readers!  I'm the founder of Stridi - Josh Littler - and I wanted to publish a message looking forward to a brand new decade and what role Stridi, and all of us, can play to help with mental health issues over the next decade.  The support and recognition of individuals has advanced a massive  amount over the last 10 years, but the truth is, there is far more we as a society can do. Stridi was founded in 2018 and the initial idea behind it was to create a safe online space for individuals with mental health issues, but since then we have evolved.  In the last year and a half we have been able to collaborate with Bath Spa University, running seminars on how technology can be used to support individuals with mental health, and myself sitting on the Mental Health Advisory Board set up by the Vice Chancellor, Susan Rigby. Moreover, in 2020 I've collaborated with the University of Reading and we are aiming to publish research into how anonymous online c

Hello again! It’s Matt here, and as promised, we’re going to have a look at some more Top Tips for Making Friends. Although, this time, we’ll be focusing on the art of keeping our new buddies. I’ll give you a heads up on some of the themes we’ll be focusing on, because there’s two key elements to keeping your friends. One of these elements is “effort”, by which I don’t mean you have to run a marathon each day, more just that you might have to respond to texts occasionally.  Photo by bruce mars from Pexels Thankfully, in 2019, there’ll be no sending Hedwig out to deliver messages because communication is pretty quick these days. Communication is the other key element, which leads on from the first theme of effort. Although, communication comes in so many forms, from text messages, to speech, to body language. So in regards to the first theme of “effort”, every type of rel