Pride and its shadows
In our second blog marking Pride month, David explores the connections between mental health and pride, shame and lateral violence within LGBTQ+ communities.
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Podcast: Community-rooted solutions to tackling mental health inequalities
Andy Bell is joined by Danielle Bridge, Shoana Qureshi-Khan and Martin Bisp – three people leading voluntary, community and social enterprise sector organisations dedicated to tackling mental health inequalities.
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Mental health and sexual identity: a personal and political story
Sam marks Pride month with reflections on the connection between his mental health and his sexuality.
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Children and young people’s mental health: a crisis shaped by the world around them
Emily van de Venter and Jim McManus argue that framing the mental health crisis as a social media problem risks obscuring the bigger picture.
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A new mental health strategy: welcome, overdue, and only the beginning
Andy welcomes the Government’s commitment to a cross-government mental health strategy – and sets out what it will take to turn this long-overdue promise into real change.
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Sydenham Garden: a community resource for better mental health
Andy visits Sydenham Garden in South London and makes the case for better, longer-term funding for community green spaces that support people’s mental health.
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“Ever Trying”. Mental health and suicide prevention services in Sweden
Dr Chris Hanvey explores what the UK can learn from Sweden’s national strategy for mental health and suicide prevention, from psychiatric ambulances to specialist helplines.
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A troubling gap – By and for services for black and minoritised victim-survivors of violence against women and girls
Fleur Boya examines how mental health legislation and systems continue to leave survivors from Black and minoritised communities without the specialist support they need.
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A workforce for mental health in later life
Andy draws on a recent roundtable to make the case for a stronger, more specialist workforce to meet the mental health needs of older people.
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Media reporting is still reinforcing stigma around mental health
Lisa McNally examines how a recent BBC article on fit notes reinforced harmful mental health stigma – and calls on media to do better.
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