Mental health - time to ‘Come Out'

editor@uticopa.com — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0100

A few years ago, during an otherwise normal working week, businessman Jonathan Naess was very publicly sectioned under the Mental Health Act. It was a humiliating experience. Naess was a successful corporate financier with a long career in the City.

He was diagnosed with bipolar disorder (manic depression) and placed in a locked ward in a psychiatric hospital.

While hospitalised, he had an interesting discussion with a psychiatrist about how prevalent it was for businessmen [...]

Let's face the music and dance

editor@uticopa.com — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0100

As Irving Berlin put it, there are times when we just have to face the music of our personal problems and learn to dance anyway. Certainly, after extraordinary turmoil in the economy last year, just about everyone has something to worry about. But sometimes change is not always for the worse. The trick is to, first, adjust by facing our problems.

Let's face the music......

If your life is becoming too much to bear for you, your GP is a good first port of call.

Mental health issues and the media: never the ‘twain shall meet'?

editor@uticopa.com — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

So much of the media stigmatizes mental health issues. Yet, media coverage in general has a direct impact on all our lives and even controls, subliminally, how we think. But in the field of mental health, it is clear that poor quality, essentially unbalanced, press coverage of mental health issues fuels stigma and actively reduces a sufferer's quality of life.

So, what can we do about it?

First we need to gauge its effects on mental health sufferers themselves. The me [...]

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Mental health - time to ‘Come Out'

Let's face the music and dance

Mental health issues and the media: never the ‘twain shall meet'?