How theatre can be a powerful tool in fighting the stigma of mental illness
This World Theatre Day, Chennai-based SCARF, with other organisations, shows how creative interventions can help in mental health therapy and awareness.
Category: Mental Health
This World Theatre Day, Chennai-based SCARF, with other organisations, shows how creative interventions can help in mental health therapy and awareness.
To Grayson Perry, art and mental illness are the same thing inews
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Already one of the most impoverished towns in the UK, withdrawal of support has left many unsure how to cope “It’s not very helpful really,” says Owen Sandford, 27, of the government’s spring statement. “I understand they’ve got a tough job, but we’ve got a tougher job trying to survive.” Sandford is in receipt of […]
There should be a rule preventing American legislators from pathologising political opponents, as there is for psychiatrists, writes Leon Hoffman A bill was recently introduced to the Minnesota legislature to categorise “Trump derangement syndrome” as a mental illness. The proposed bill defines the syndrome as characterised by “verbal expressions of intense hostility toward” Donald Trump and […]
Access All: Disability News and Mental Health, ‘I used to hear tormenting voices day in, day out’ BBC
A growing number of life coaches are focusing on men’s mental health, addressing the emotional pain that can tip many into the so-called manosphere “Dead inside. Those were the words that were thrown at me in my 20s … It wasn’t even an insult. It was just who I was.” The man speaking has a […]
University students, renters and people on welfare missed out on a piece of the pie, while the arts sector and preventative health measures were also overlooked Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast While much of the federal budget conversation will centre […]
This emotionally astute novel describes a woman’s descent into psychological distress, but some of its ideas remain embryonic Nine months is not long enough to grow a physiologically robust human being. Newborns enter the world vulnerable in ways that might be avoided if the gestation period were longer. Scientists long held the belief that this […]