Category: Mental Health
I am furious that women and children have to endure a crisis like this for progress to become politically possible. But I will seize this moment Jess Phillips MP is parliamentary under-secretary of state for safeguarding and violence against women and girls Jess Phillips calls for Epstein files to be catalyst for long-term legislative change […]
SVG Govt Eyes New Model to Treat Mental Illness St Vincent Times
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions ponders how to overcome fear and do what is needed This week’s question: what would be the most socially useful way to spend a billion dollars? Is it possible to acquire courage if you don’t have it? I was moved by the recent story of […]
Our world is not set up to honour the bond between pet and human, but we can reduce expectations of ourselves as we grieve The modern mind is a column where experts discuss mental health issues they are seeing in their work Last week, I sat in the emergency department of a veterinary hospital for […]
He didn’t look like a stereotypical ‘drug addict’, but when he fled to South Africa with all our savings it was obvious that is what he had become When I tell people that a drug addiction nearly killed my dad, I know what most of them are thinking. Heroin. Crack. Maybe meth or ket. Those […]
More joined up care and earlier help are being promised by NHS staff for the Shropshire scheme.
More farmers seek mental health help, charity says BBC
Does it only affect weak people? Is work always the cause? Burnout myths, busted by the experts Once, after surviving yet another round of redundancies in a former job, I did something very odd. I turned off the lights in my room and lay face-down on the bed, unable to move. Rather than feeling relief at […]
The day I found out my father was a paedophile The Telegraph
Self-reliance is often encouraged over asking others for help in the modern world. But doing everything yourself can be a sign that you are scared of intimacy When a relative was seriously ill and in intensive care for more than a month, Cianne Jones stepped in. “I took it upon myself to be that person […]