Mental Health

Mental Health

• Suicide rates at 20 year high: an indictment of Tory austerity

  

  Rising suicide rates show the monumental human cost of Tory austerity and why we urgently need to get them out of power, argues Mona Kamal

• Austerity and the damage done: the crisis in mental health care

  

  Funding cuts are creating a problem that is spiralling out of control, with the young and poor hit hardest, argues Mona Kamal

• Austerity Britain is destroying our mental health

  

  As those most affected by austerity Britain blame themselves, we must turn attention to the real culprits, argues Karen Buckley

• Another World Mental Health Day, another hollow Tory proposal

  

  Theresa May announcing a Suicide Prevention Minister to tackle the growing mental health problems that are a product of the austerity is empty rhetoric argues Mona Kamal

• The rhyming guide to austerity

  

  Fit to work assessments take money away from people who need it. Read Potent Whisper's story, and send us your own

• University of Bristol students march for mental health services

  

  Students at the University of Bristol demonstrated in huge numbers this Friday to protest inadequate mental health provision, reports Steven Cooper

• Through my eyes: the social care crisis

  

  John Rees writes about how the social care crisis hit his family

• Anguish and austerity: the personal cost of cuts

  

  Austerity penalises the most vulnerable in our society. This government's record is shameful and we most hold them to account, writes Mona Kamal

• Mental health services: how they fail young people and what can be done about it

  

  Slashed budgets, stressed workers and young people in desperate need across England and Wales. Something’s got to give

• Squandered lives: how young people struggle to find decent mental health care

  

  Vulnerable young people suffering from mental illness are not getting the help that they need. Kesia’s story

• Black and dangerous? Listening to patients’ experiences of mental health services in London

  

  Why are black people with mental health problems still more likely than whites to be heavily medicated, restrained and detained against their will?