Dame Sally Davies spoke about the time she ate hash cakes and hallucinated !
Earlier this week, England’s top doctor called for a ban on smoking in parks – to set a better example for children.
But yesterday, Dame Sally Davies spoke again about the time she ate hash cakes and hallucinated.
The chief medical officer, who has previously admitted taking cannabis at university, blamed the bad experience which made her stop dabbling with the illegal drug on ‘contaminants’ in an interview.
“People who are in need of psychiatric admission should have the right to be treated in a local hospital”
A mental health service has said it is being forced to send patients almost 200 miles away for treatment because it is struggling to meet demand for beds.
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust said it operates at 100% capacity for a majority of the time.
It said beds will “always be found” in an emergency, but patients have been sent as far as Brighton and Carlisle.
Living with a chronic mental illness can sometimes feel like waiting for the other shoe to drop (hopefully it’s at least something stylish). Up until this point, I have distanced my writing from my present by focusing on my past. Well, I’m going to take a huge leap of faith and discuss the state of my current mental health. And the fact is, I’m struggling.
RALLY COME & JOIN US: MUN GIVES SUPPORT TO STAND AGAINST ANTI SEMITISM
Anti Semitism is at an all time high.
Rally in solidarity with UKJews
Declare your pride in Judaism. r
There will be big name speakers from both within and from outside
the Jewish community at the rally, including:
Rt Hon Jim Murphy MP – Shadow Secretary of State for International Development
Ivan Lewis MP – Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
Henry Ferster – Holocaust Survivor
Jonathan Arkush – Vice President, Board of Deputies
Rabbi Daniel Walker – Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation
Rabbi Amir Ellituv – Sha’are Hayim Sephardi Congregation, Hale
BRING YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY AND SHOW
HOW PROUD WE ARE TO BE JEWISH
Millions of UK workers fear reporting mental health conditions !
Huge numbers of UK workers are hiding mental health conditions from their employers for fear of it affecting their job, according to Friends Life.
A poll from One Poll for the insurance firm, which surveyed more than 2,000 people, found that more than 50% of all workers believe being open about a common mental health problem would damage their career prospects.
The UK working-age population is more than 38 million, according to the Office for National Statistics.
So more than 19 million workers in the UK could be worried about reporting a common mental health problem to their employers.
Prioritising Mental Health Research
Many things are unprecedented about the run-up to next year’s general election, but perhaps one of the least anticipated is the prominence mental health has acquired. There has been something of a slow-motion pile-up aspect to mental health care over the past few years, as reports of the devastating effects of cuts, including chronic bed shortages and patients put at risk have kept on coming. Despite ministerial overtures lately about “parity of esteem” between mental and physical health, ask people in need of counselling or of a bed on an acute ward if provision is meeting needs and the answer will be an unequivocal “No”.
The head of Unison has urged NHS staff to ‘keep on fighting’ after six different unions in Manchester took part in the first nationwide health service walkout for 32 years.
The strike was triggered by the coalition government’s decision to refuse NHS staff the 1% pay rise recommended by an independent pay review body and sparked further outrage after the proposal to award MPs a 9% pay rise earlier this year.
Eugene St Leger, from Bramhall, Stockport, was rushed to Stepping Hill Hospital after his sister Alexandra found him face down in a pool of blood in the family’s cellar after he cut his neck with a piece of glass
Children and young people being admitted to adult mental health wards should be a “rare event”
Children and young people being admitted to adult mental health wards should be a “rare event”, says new draft guidance.
But if it does happen, an independent advocate should be appointed for that person, says the NHS guidelines.
This follows criticism from watchdogs and a BBC Wales investigation in which experts said the service was in crisis.
The invisible struggle:
When you have a broken leg, people can see the plaster and crutches. No one judges you – in fact, they’re more likely to hold the door open.
When you have a mental illness, the signs are not easy to see. You may find doors closed to you and more than a few closed minds.
Depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, psychosis and OCD were all conditions students at the Royal Northern College of Music discussed on World Mental Health Day.
