State power and the capacity to decide
One in 10 people has waited more than a decade for psychological therapy
A GP summit addresses prescription medication addiction
Has Australia gone too far in plans to test three-year-olds for mental health issues?
Suffolk Mental ward ‘a disaster zone’, inquiry was told
Manufacturers of many herbal helps including the depression busting St Johns Wort, are under threat
Central YMCA reveals body image obsession is damaging mental and physical health
World Health Organization reports Somalia has only three psychiatrists and no psychologists working at its five main mental health facilities
England is celebrating Mental Health Week from 23rd to 30th May
Lord Carlile hopes mental health charity can be extended across Wales
If you have read my work for a variety of mental health magazines and my other blogs you will know by now that I have a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia.  I'm not a "paranoid schizophrenic" -- this is a stigmatising and...
Anonymous
25th June 2011
I was moved to tears by Charlotte's latest blog on Friday and I promised her I would open up fully about what it's like to experience an "acute psychotic episode" -- the worst kind of nervous breakdown -- which happened to me 8...
Anonymous
27th June 2011
The following report came out on the Guardian website Monday, outlining how the ONS propose to measure well-being and happiness following the new governments call to measure well-being as well as GDP. So, How Do You Measure Wellbeing & Happiness...
27th July 2011
It’s rare that I have to seek permissions before writing a blog but I wanted to post today about Creative Support and Community Restart – the two organisations which have played the biggest role in helping me regain my independence and...
Anonymous
31st July 2011
Veterans and the Justice System The inquiry made by the Howard League for Penal Reform into former Armed Service personnel in prison was launched on Armistice Day 2009. The inquiry was established with the remit of discovering why so many ex-...
31st July 2011
Have your say!!! I have created this post as a way for you to tell me what you want. As the editor of Mental Healthy it is very important to me what YOU think. Us writers and editors rant on about mental health issues and  now this is your...
10th August 2011
I felt deeply sad when I read, in yesterday's Mail on Sunday, Gail Porter's interview about her experience of sectioning.   I knew she'd been in hospital -- Mental Healthy covered the story at the time - but it wasn't until...
Anonymous
15th August 2011
My parents were due to make an international flight as I spent September 11th 2001 on a day off work as a broadcast journalist and, as I listened to BBC Radio 5 Live in my car out in the middle of the countryside, I heard the first terrible news...
Anonymous
11th September 2011
OK, here goes... I have always loved to write, and have done so for many years. Not professionally, but for my own enjoyment. I suppose I found it therapeutic. Over an extended period of time, the writing stopped flowing. My mental health (...
12th November 2011
This is going to be the most controversial post I think I have ever written. Some of you will agree with me wholeheartedly, some of you will despise my words. These views are mine and don't represent my work with Mental Healthy! I know quite a...
29th November 2011
Well congratulations to our Prime Minister. His attitude this week to sufferers of Tourette’s and  Alzhiemers just demonstrates how this government really sees mentally  disabled people as the lowest in society. A Prime Minister...
8th January 2012
The Crisis Team that wouldn't admit me or hospitalise me when compulsively suicidal ... The junior psychiatrist who asked me, in front of my mum, why I didn't want to kill myself or her ... The support worker who pulled out a knife on me and...
Anonymous
4th March 2012
During the course of my life, I have used the NHS a lot. From teenage to my early 20s in London, I received great care from hospitals and GPs alike for both chronic knee and stomach problems. In my mid-20s in London, I had my first child. With the...
14th March 2012
Those that have read my blog before will know that I have BPD, and struggle with emotional dysregulation. When I experience an emotion, it is extreme. So when historic, national events occur, I’m a sitting duck. Yes, I’m completely...
6th August 2012
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