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    • 03/04/2020
    Maintaining Mental Health. What Can You Do?

    Maintaining Mental Health. What Can You Do?

    What a strange and rather surreal time we are all living in. COVID 19 is affecting each and every one of us in some way or another. We will all be dealing with it, physically and emotionally, very differently. Working with FVE, FECAVA have produced the attached ten wellbeing tips from Dr. Rosie Alistair, Vetlife,

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    • 17/03/2020
    Psychovets: The Mission is Possible and it Starts with You!

    Psychovets: The Mission is Possible and it Starts with You!

    We need both better individual self-management and better colleague support within the profession. You know those dogs who come limping into the clinic, wagging their tail, big smile on their happy face, although they’re in a lot of pain? That’s us vets. We are constantly in character at work. We might have sleep deprivation, we

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    • 09/02/2020
    Psychovets: Lancing the Abcess

    Psychovets: Lancing the Abcess

    It´s 2018, Friday, August 24th. A ten page-long and well-written article on high suicide rates in the veterinary profession has just been published in Dagens Næringsliv, a reputable Norwegian newspaper. Marianne´s phone is about to burst with thankful messages from vets all over Norway. She calls her friend and colleague Helene – it turns out

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    • 29/01/2020
    We all have mental health. It’s time to talk.

    We all have mental health. It’s time to talk.

    That’s Christmas over, the shortest day of the year is past and we are into 2020– where has the year gone?! A new decade is upon us and summer is just round the corner. However, the festive season isn’t always the easiest time of year. Everyone is so busy and frantically trying to fit so

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