{"id":147,"date":"2018-05-28T20:28:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T19:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/?p=147"},"modified":"2018-05-28T20:28:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T19:28:56","slug":"money-and-our-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"Money and our mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to highlight this website resource:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.moneyandmentalhealth.org\/\">https:\/\/www.moneyandmentalhealth.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many of the people I work with are experiencing challenges around money.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes this is because of the increasing difficulties in accessing benefits, or because of a lack of paid work and\/or being underpaid at work, or due to pre-existing debt. The people I meet through my work with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.begambleaware.org\/confidential-help\/\">problem-gambling<\/a> often tell me that they started gambling in the hope of getting extra money to pay off debts and\/or to meet a new financial challenge, liking needing to replace their car. The financial debt that problem-gambling can often create then becomes a trigger in itself to gamble more, in the hope of winning enough money to pay off the gambling debt.<\/p>\n<p>All these situations can be extremely stressful and can feel shaming, so I want to draw people&#8217;s attention that there is help and advice out there and encourage people to ask for help. Please have a look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moneyandmentalhealth.org\/get-help\/\">Money and Mental Health<\/a> website or Money Saving Expert guide to mental health and debt:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/images.moneysavingexpert.com\/images\/documents\/mentalhealthguide_new_october_2016.pdf\">http:\/\/images.moneysavingexpert.com\/images\/documents\/mentalhealthguide_new_october_2016.pdf<\/a><br \/>\nor ring the National Gambling Helpline: 0808 8020 133 if you are concerned about problem-gambling (yours or that of someone close to you).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to highlight this website resource: https:\/\/www.moneyandmentalhealth.org\/ Many of the people I work with are experiencing challenges around money. Sometimes this is because of the increasing difficulties in accessing benefits, or because of a lack of paid work and\/or being underpaid at work, or due to pre-existing debt. The people I meet through my &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/?p=147\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Money and our mental health&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}