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16 February 2012
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Posted by Esme
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On the 6th of March I will be going to Westminister with all of my fellow activists to lobby my MP with the help of Rethink Mental Illness. These changes have wide ranging implications not only for me but for the people I love.
The Pink Paper reports about claims that bisexual people have the worst mental health problems - including higher rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm and suicide.
When my 89-year-old father died, in 2006, my life changed completely. He’d taken care of my older sister Barb, who had as yet undiagnosed schizophrenia, for over three decades. She had returned home at the age of 31, after living an independent, full and somewhat glamorous life.
Would you buy a mobile phone that knows when you're depressed?
Important things don’t always happen when you are looking for them. Last night’s vote by the House of Lords to enshrine in law the principle that mental and physical health must be treated equally within the NHS, may be one of them.
Brad Pitt is the latest of many celebrities to open up about their mental health problems, and showing that mental illness can happen to any of us. But could it all go wrong?
25 January 2012
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Posted by Alice
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Every Christmas morning for the past thirteen years or more my grandparents and I have gone to see my mum. Where she is depends on what kind of year she’s had – sometimes it’s in her own flat, but other years she’ll be in the hospital. Actually, in some ways I feel that it might be better when she is in hospital at that time, as there is always company, whereas in her home she spends Christmas afternoon alone.
A microchip has been created that can record what medications a person has taken, and trigger a message sent to a phone. Could this help with complex pill regimes?
A couple of years ago personalisation seemed to dominate the policy landscape in health and social care. It even made a major appearance in one of Gordon Brown’s speeches to the Labour Party Conference. Whether it took five or ten years to implement there seemed to be a consensus that this was the direction of travel.
