mental health awareness – A New Vision for Mental Health

The definition of mental health has been widened so much that it’s now almost meaningless

Author: Editorial 15th May 2023 0 Comments

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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a wellbeing society

anxiety, Martha Gill, medicalisation, mental health awareness, Mental Health Foundation, stigmatisation, The Guardian, wellbeing

Are mental health awareness efforts contributing to the rise in reported mental health problems? A call to test the prevalence inflation hypothesis

Author: Editorial 16th February 2023 0 Comments

This paper by Lucy Foulkes and Jack L. Andrews has been published by New Ideas in Psychology. The abstract says: “In the past decade, there have been extensive efforts in the Western world to raise public awareness about mental health problems,…
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a coherent system

Clients & Patients, inflation hypothesis, Jack Andrews, Lucy Foulkes, mental health awareness, New Ideas in Psychology

The Case Against Mental Health Awareness Raising

Author: Editorial 17th January 2019 0 Comments

Jonathan Gleadell, writing in Areo magazine , says: “In the wake of World Mental Health Day and Theresa May’s appointment of a suicide prevention minister, this might seem like the least propitious time to make a case against mental health awareness, even…
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a wellbeing society

Areo magazine, generation Z, Jonathan Gleadell, mental health awareness, millenials, stigma, wellbeing

Hugs and Drugs – The limitations of ‘mental health awareness’

Author: Editorial 16th October 2017 0 Comments

This is an extract from a blog post by David Gilbert (part of his Future Patient Blog site, where you can find musings about the possibilities of patient-led and user-led healthcare): “… Why don’t we get it (1)? The other day, a friend…
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collaborative practice

Clients & Patients, David Gilbert, mental health awareness, Prince Harry, stigma