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“You cant see your GP. She is on leave for 6 or 8 weeks.”
For anyone in desperation this was a very last thing you would want to hear, yet this was the response I was given last week - on the day I gave in and decided I was again in enough trouble to ask for my GP’s assistance.
The author of a new book about Princess Diana says she “had a serious mental illness” and seems to make controversial statements about her bulimia and childhood experiences.
Channel 4 are soon to broadcast an ‘entertainment season’ around mental health called 4 Goes Mad.
This March Rethink Mental Illness held as series of five physical health summits across the UK, bringing together local activists with the key planners in their mental health trust. Our activist Ian recounts why it was so important for him to attend our event in Oxford.
I read with interest an interview in last week’s Health Services Journal with the Indian heart surgeon, Devi Shetty. Nicknamed the “Henry Ford of healthcare” he advocates for fundamental changes in the delivery of healthcare based on increasing the scale of delivery, greater use of technology and challenging the historic monopoly of the medical profession. Such changes would deliver major reductions in the cost and improvements in quality.
01 May 2012
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Posted by Erica
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Last week I wrote about my job search and whether writing in public forums about my psychosis was ruining my quest for paid work, if potential employers Googled me.
26 April 2012
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Posted by PeerQ
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Last night channel 4 screened a five minute slot by Evangelical Christian Malcom Bowden, who claimed that ‘depression is the manifestation of pride’. From the opening line ‘I consider that depression and many other mental illnesses are very deliberately decided by that person’ I knew the next five minutes would be uncomfortable viewing...
25 April 2012
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Posted by Shelly
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One in four adults experience mental illness at some point during their lifetime and one in six experience symptoms at any one time – making mental illness the largest single cause of disability in our society; as most of us should already be aware.
