Homophobia can cause mental health issues, says Shadow Minister for Mental Health

But one of the key lessons for me was that the most effective services for people with mental health services were those that had been shaped by the people who used them.

The truth is that there is outrageous discrimination at the heart of the NHS.

“You see, as a special needs mum it’s my job to hold the family together, although it’s not the actual living with a child with autism that is necessarily the hard part all the time”.

According to a Human Rights Watch report, once women are admitted into mental health institutions in India, they face a range of abuses, which includes prolonged detention (sometimes for 20-30 years), unsanitary conditions, neglect and involuntary treatment. It’s impossible to justify that.

“I wholeheartedly support this”.

For a whole group of people to be treated differently, simply because of the type of condition they have, is clearly unacceptable.

Let’s take a look at the mental health trends and the associated efforts being taken in a few countries.

An action plan and common strategy has been discussed by Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Sue Mountstevens and partners ahead of World Mental Health Day.

James Crawley, a campaigner for raising awareness of mental health, said: “It was a fantastic day”. When in many cases, numerous individuals need help from health and social care agencies, not the police. It was called the Crisis Care Concordat. This could be due to the fact that employees feel they can speak out about their mental health issues, which is great news as it shows work environments aren’t hostile to the topic of mental health.

Mental Health America, an organization established in 1909, provides a free online tool for the people so that they can perform a mental health checkup privately at home. I began work to end out of area placements as a Minister, and was told it would be possible to put a stop to this practice. “Just like other illnesses, any sort of mental disorder is treatable, and the sooner it is diagnosed, the easier it is to cure”, says Dr Jay Shastri, honorary treasurer at Indian Association of Biological Psychiatry. I desperately hope the Health Secretary will continue to build on the progress that was made in the last five years.

Commenting on the results, CIPD head of public policy Ben Willmott said: “As a nation we’re getting better at opening up the conversation around mental health, but there is still a long way to go”.