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World Mental Health Day and the power of small gestures

Posted by: Mark Osterloh, Posted on: 10 October 2015 - Categories: Mental health, News

Today, if you didn't know it already, is World Mental Health Day. It's an opportunity, not just to raise awareness and understanding of mental health problems, but to also celebrate successes in the battle to eliminate stigma, discrimination and help …

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Preventing the most tragic of outcomes

Posted by: Dr Caroline Dollery, Posted on: 5 February 2015 - Categories: Mental health, Viewpoint

Today is Time to Talk Day – a day encouraging us all to open up and share our mental health concerns. What better day than this to post a guest blog on suicide prevention? Dr Caroline Dollery is Clinical Director …

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Mental health attitudes: empathy winning over austerity

Posted by: Mark Osterloh, Posted on: 4 July 2014 - Categories: Mental health

Sometimes, our faith in human nature can be rewarded. A recently published study by The Lancet Psychiatry Journal seems to show that Time to Change - Mind and Rethink Mental Illness's mental health anti-stigma programme - is having a positive …

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Why I became a member champion for mental health

Posted by: Michael Bevan, Posted on: 18 February 2014 - Categories: Guest author, Mental health, Viewpoint

The years 2001/02 were dark, bleak and dismal ones for me. My domestic life and career were both in turmoil, my marriage was breaking down, I had acute debt problems and was constantly bullied at work. They were months of …

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