New Forest Mental Health Group
Southampton, F2
Welcome to the New Forest Mental Health Group. This group is for individuals 18–25 years old who are interested in discussing and seeking support for mental health issues. Whether you are struggling with anxiety, depression, PTSD, or any other mental health challenge, this group provides a safe and compassionate space to share experiences, learn coping strategies, and build a supportive community. Let's come together to break the stigma surrounding mental health and offer each other empathy, understanding, and encouragement on our journey towards healing and well-being. Join us for meetups, workshops, and events that prioritise mental health and self-care.
This is what the group is about and how it can help.
Looking to improve your life and wellbeing, and maybe have some fun along the way?
Are you looking to hang out with some like-minded people?
Trying to figure out how to be happier or deal with negative thoughts?
Feel like you do not belong?
My name is Mark Darcy, and I am the founder and creator of a New Forest Mental Health Group that aims to help you with your mental health and have some fun doing it.
My own purpose in life is to try and change the world by bringing people together through spreading kindness, love, and compassion, which fills my own heart with so much joy! It’s a win-win for everyone.
I have vast experience in life, coming from a tough childhood to being a successful, wealthy international businessman. Besides being a sponsored triathlete and having suffered from mental illness myself in the past, I am now transformed and truly happy and grateful for the small things in life that we can miss, and I look at my thoughts in a different way because we are very unkind to ourselves. Is there good or bad? Or maybe life is a journey, and along the way, we experience things that we learn from.
I believe I can help you find happiness and hopefully understand yourself more, especially in this crazy world we live in when we can feel hopeless.
I set up this group to try to help people between the ages of 18 and 25 years old. Collectively, my own life experiences, the great outdoors, amazing venues, 6-week practical courses, and peer-to-peer support from young people like you who have had challenges can demonstrate how they are starting to deal with them.
I believe I can help people understand more about the complicated and often challenging world we live in; furthermore, we can teach ourselves how to be happy! (Believe it or not, you don’t have to have loads of money or materialistic things!)
My real passion in life is to help people in any way I can. Therefore, I have volunteered for Solent Mind and been involved with other local charities. I'm the founder of the New Forest Wellbeing Group, which has become so successful. What is success? to me, changing people's lives for the better. I have also done talks in the past on wellbeing for the Dorset Chamber of Commerce, charities, and business leaders, as well as a city-center wellbeing walk in Sounthampton. Finally, I will spread kindness and love whenever I can. Small acts of kindness make a big difference, and just choosing to spend your time speaking to someone is being kind.
The New Forest wellbeing group I run is on this website, so if you or anyone you know would benefit, please check it out. It has an incredible following, and spaces fill up very quickly, with up to 40 people on the waiting list! We have a lovely community feel within this group, and that really helps people feel included, a part of something, supported, happy, and learn something. I know the group has helped people beyond what they even hoped for, and I am grateful for all the wonderful messages I have received and the conversations I have had.
If we all did one act of kindness every day, the world would be an amazing place for everyone. Therefore, please spread the word, because this can help you and your friends. I can also promise you that it will be fun and safe, and you will learn along the way!
Even if it just gets you out of your own head and out of the house for a few hours, combined with meeting like minded people and not forgetting the laughs, that alone is a huge achievement and will bring you so much happiness and enrichment. Not only that, it could bring new friendships, supportive relationships, a sense of belonging, and a sense of achievement too.
This is an incredible opportunity for you and your friends! So please be kind, share it, and pass it on to everyone that you feel it could help.
Taking the path of most resistance can be the most satisfying, but we are wired to take the path of least resistance to protect us, whether that is living or surviving. Why not take the path of most resistance, and I promise you will not get home and wish you didn't go
If you are interested or have any questions, contact me directly. I would love to speak to you.