North West still lost for words when it comes to mental health

Both Tim Farron and Norman Lamb have taken note that today is World Mental Health Day. Then there are countries like China where mental illness affects millions of people, but this population remains “kind of invisible”. People suffer and live with mental illness and it is not because of their fault or weakness, curse on them by someone else or due to past karma but because they are simply human beings just as the rest of the people who suffer from any other physical illness.

Mrs Mountstevens said: “Locally there is a real commitment from partners to work together to help people in mental health crisis”.

How many people are open to talk about suffering from depression?

Plus many children and young people who have experienced a mental illness say that just describing how they feel to someone they trust lifted a weight from their shoulders.

“Asking someone how they are, sending a text or arranging to meet up are a few of the small but very meaningful gestures that can make the world of difference”. We owe it to ourselves – and others – to try and understand the problems that people with mental illness experience and treat them with dignity and understanding so they seek help and support. The World Health Organization reports the mentally ill account for 13 percent of the global disease burden, and for one-third of all health-related disability.

Mental Awareness Week was established by the United States Congress as a time to raise public awareness of severe mental illnesses such as major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and other anxiety disorders such as obsessive-compulsive disorder and borderline personality disorder.

MM also spoke to Dr J S Bamrah, the medical director of Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust, whose expertise gave us an insight into mental health issues across the city. In recent years, the national capital has witnessed a lot of people attempting suicide at Janakpuri District Centre or now we hear about people jumping in front of Delhi Metro trains.

Mental health problems in Notts are increasing.

The years of fear and stigmatisation against those with mental issues have become entrenched and will not be erased in weeks, months or even years.

Natalie’s mental health problems came to a head when she started having panic attacks at the department store where she worked.

Mr Gbiri Adeola, the Chairman of Association of Psychiatric Nurses of Nigeria (APNON), Ondo State Chapter, urged health workers to respect the individual identity of patients and maintain good interpersonal relationship with them. He stressed the need to support the work of organisations that are working to improve the status of mental health patients.

Samaritans’ research* indicates it is particularly relevant when examining why middle-aged men are now at three and a half times greater risk of taking their own lives in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.

Achieving a long term stable relationship and children, plus a home is also seen as the gold standard and if that goes wrong many men can feel shame and defeat, and blame themselves. The QRP reportedly “goes beyond conventional treatment”, in that it advises “service users and caregivers on how to access social grants and giving career guidance”.