These publications provide advice for people who have been asked to speak in public about their personal experiences of self-harm, suicide or other mental health issues, and the organisations that
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Mental health workers are spending “precious clinical time” helping patients deal with wider problems such as filling in benefits forms or calling energy providers, finance champion Martin Lewis has said.
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A record number of children have sought help from Childline over suicidal thoughts. NSPCC help and advice service provided 62 counselling sessions each day last year for children tormented by
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The number of compulsory mental health treatments in Scotland has hit its highest level in at least 15 years, according to a watchdog report. In 2016/2017, the Mental Welfare Commission
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I•ROC wellbeing, a subsidiary company of Scottish mental health charity Penumbra, has launched a powerful set of digital mental health recovery tools. The pioneering digital toolkit is a means for
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Insults about mental health issues are becoming more commonplace, with words like “retard”, “weirdo” and “psycho” heard in everyday language, a report claims. It suggests that more than four in
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Schizophrenics and patients with bipolar disorder are being treated with dogs, rabbits and rats by using “animal magic” for therapy at a Manchester hospital. The seven-week course of animal-assisted therapy
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Reduced funding to mental health services across the UK is leaving staff vulnerable to violence and aggression from patients, and means they cannot provide the level of care needed, says
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NHS treatment for children with mental health problems is shockingly poor, the Children’s Commissioner for England has said. In a new report to MPs, Anne Longfield said she was “very
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The Duke of Cambridge has praised the “fantastic” work of the royal Heads Together campaign, as his charitable foundation announced a £2 million investment towards a new mental health start-up
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