You’ve heard them before – ‘People with mental health problems are weak’. ‘Only teenage girls self-harm’. ‘Mums with postnatal depression don’t love their babies’. Even today, these completely false claims can be heard throughout our society, and the negative effects can be devastating. It’s time to educate…
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Project aims to help psychosis in women in custody
Mind in Camden’s ‘Hearing Voices’ initiative now supporting 10 women’s prisons HMP Bronzefield, in Surrey, is set to become the tenth prison in the UK to benefit from the ‘Hearing Voices’ group support for women. Planned to run until at least 2020, Mind in Camden [http://www.mindincamden.…
The moment I realised... I was always a Samaritan
Young Samaritan, Laura Rutherford, speaks to Happiful about her experience as a volunteer…