/ Mental Health Awareness Week
This week, let’s raise more than awareness: let’s raise our expectations. I want our next government to be as ambitious about preventing mental health problems as we are.
/ Mental health in the workplace
Our new research 'Surviving or Thriving? The state of the UK's mental health' shows that most of us experience something we’d describe as a mental health problem at some time. Our research also showed that just 13% of the UK population has a high level of good mental health – that’s too low and it’s time we recognised and addressed the barriers that prevent some people from thriving.
/ Prevention resources and tools
One of the most obvious yet under-recognised factors for mental health is nutrition. What we eat and drink affects how we feel, think and behave.
/ Families, children and young people
This Mother’s Day, I’m feeling particularly grateful to the NHS services who enabled me to carry on mothering my children through our darkest hour.
/ Mental Health Awareness Week
Mark Rowland shares a powerful personal story and explains the importance of thriving with good mental health - our theme for this year's Mental Health Awareness Week.
/ Challenging mental health inequalities
We’re all familiar with the horror of the Nazi attempts to annihilate the Jewish population in the 1940s – the Holocaust. One of the less well-known aspects of Nazi policy was the genocide that included the slaughter of up to 275,0001 psychiatric patients. The majority of them, like me, had a diagnosis of schizophrenia.
/ Challenging mental health inequalities
Mental health problems affect large numbers of homeless people and those who were homeless and now live in supported housing.
We need to give much more consideration to the values we use when supporting and caring for people living with dementia, especially as they are a group that can be at high risk for developing wider mental health problems.
/ Challenging mental health inequalities
Completion of the fourth survey makes this the longest-running series in the world to monitor a nation’s mental health using consistent methods. In 2014/15, interviewers went into the homes of a random sample of 7500 people aged from 16 to over 100, including some with no contact with health services and many with conditions that hadn’t previously been identified.
/ Challenging mental health inequalities
Slowly but surely, mental health stigma is decreasing. However, this article will show we’ve still some way to go. We asked people with lived experience of mental health problems what they wish people knew about mental ill-health.
