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What’s wrong with saying: “pull yourself together”? 15 Jul 2013 | 05:47 pm
By Tim Watkins Whether it is Janet Street-Porter’s now infamous rant about depression being a trendy illness, or Iain Duncan Smith’s Atos henchmen using Micky Mouse tests to “prove” that people with ...
Do you know enough about mental illness? 24 Jan 2013 | 10:02 pm
Yesterday’s stark news of a 30% increase in suicides in Wales serves to remind us that mental health is everyone’s business. Hidden within the data was the staggering statistic that 73 percent of peop...
Should we stop psychiatrists defining mental illness? 24 Jan 2013 | 09:15 pm
An article in Tuesday’s British Medical journal by Dr Des Spence (a Scottish general practitioner) argues that the current definition of depression is “too loose”, and that this is why we have seen bi...
What the dying could teach us about resolutions 2 Jan 2013 | 08:48 pm
As a new year begins, we are encouraged to make our resolutions. Some will try to give up smoking, others to improve their diet or take up exercise, some will vow to cut back on alcohol. Important as ...
What would you do if the person sat next to you had mental health problems? 23 Nov 2012 | 02:39 pm
When it comes to mental distress, most of us want to believe that “it won’t happen to me”. But with 30 percent of us experiencing mental health problems in any year, there is a pretty good chance that...
Never mind the squeezed middle, what about the distressed bottom? 21 Nov 2012 | 08:30 pm
While national wellbeing remains stable, the headline figure that three-quarters of us say we are satisfied with our lives hides some unpalatable truths. Unfortunately (or possibly by design) the Offi...
5 Ways of Coping with Christmas 14 Nov 2012 | 08:36 pm
Take a moment to sit, breath, and remember a time when you had a particularly trying day at work. Now remember what you did to unwind afterwards. Did you: Go for a drink with colleagues after work? Sm...
Can more of the same produce different results? 9 Nov 2012 | 08:47 pm
It would be churlish to object to the ambitions that underpin Mr Miliband’s speech calling for a new approach to mental health. Nor is it easy to find fault with the proposals adopted by the Welsh Gov...
Do stigma campaigns add to stigma? 22 Oct 2012 | 04:20 pm
There is little doubt that people with experience of mental illness face discrimination of one kind or another in the course of their lives. The most formal form of discrimination is that conducted by...
30 ways to de-stress quickly… Without alcohol! 8 Oct 2012 | 05:03 pm
What do you do when you are stressed? Most of us turn to quick fixes like alcohol, caffeine, chocolate, nicotine and sugar. These substances all contain chemicals that help break down the adrenaline a...
