This article by Martha Gill has been published in The Guardian. It begins: “The psychiatrist Simon Wessely once said his spirits sank every time there was a mental health awareness week . ‘We don’t need people to be more aware. We can’t deal with the…
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The ‘mental healthcare’ system should be re-designated (and re-labelled) as primarily a system for emotional and psychological healthcare. This is because the ‘mental’ designation is: Misleading … emotions form the core experiences (sadness, rage, fear, anxiety, despair, guilt etc.) of most…
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Our vision of mental and emotional health increases the focus on emotions, values the emotional heart of service provision and minimises stigma by celebrating diversity. Increasing the focus on emotional health Emotions, such as grief, anger, fear, despair and shame are the core…
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