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I missed BBC One's Inside Sport investigation into
depression among sportspeople , but it featured the former All Black John Kirwan
who fronted an advertising campaign in New Zealand to destigmatise the
condition. Read More...
Which is the best way to spend public money: by developing
treatments for dementia and cancer or in counselling couples at breaking point? Read More...
I'm just about 100% certain that I am not descended from two
giant lizards that leapt from a visiting spacecraft aeons ago but, then again, I
am also certain that autism exists. Read More...
The tragic case of Fiona Pilkington and her daughter highlighted the problem some people in the mainstream have with disability.
Recent press and TV reports suggest that the prime minister is not immune. Read More...
At 5pm today, if Hammersmith and Fulham Council in London
has its way, a group of refuseniks who have not signed new employment contracts
will leave their place of work for the last time. Read More...
When did a mass protest last achieve its aims? A couple of
weeks ago, as it happens, when London's black cab drivers blocked streets to
object to a man with a history of paranoid schizophrenia joining their ranks. Read More...
At last the director of public prosecutions has clarified
the instances in which it may be permissible - but not legal - to assist
someone to take their own life. Read More...
Mental health issues seldom receive a positive press but a
feature on a trainee black cab driver on last night's BBC London news made a sortie deep
into shock-jock territory. Read More...
Until last night I was unaware of an alarming statistic: the
number of cricketers who take their own lives is 75% higher than the rest of
the population. Read More...
How should we react to shoplifters? Is it a crime or is it symptomatic of something else: a mental illness or a substance addiction perhaps, as this personal account on the Frank website describes? Read More...
Findings that young former servicemen are at increased risk
of suicide are published today. The timing is apt. Read More...
Whatever one's views on British forces' involvement in the
government's overseas forays - or should that read "follies"? - the effects on
the personnel's bodies and minds are indisputable. Read More...
With the 200th anniversary of Louis Braille 's birth and
the UK state pension turning 100, there is much to commemorate this month. Read More...
The fit notes that are to replace GPs' sick notes are a sound idea in principle, saddled as we are with a system that, in theory, can keep employees away from the workplace in perpetuity. Read More...
A curious reclassification of cannabis and ecstasy could be
under way. Read More...
An old practice of dealing inhumanely with rough sleepers
is creeping back on to our streets. Read More...
He avoided urging the faithful to go back to their
constituencies and prepare for government, as David Steel once did, but Lib
Dems leader Nick Clegg did tell the party conference yesterday: "I can tell you
where we're headed - government."...
Anyone who views our sporting stars as pampered should read the story of cricketer Marcus Trescothick, the exquisitely talented Somerset and former England Test batsman. Read More...
Another wretched story about getting older has emerged with the news that the NHS is denying up to two million over-65s treatment for
depression . Read More...
By Mike McNabb A couple of months ago I wrote a partly tongue-in-cheek
piece about nomophobia , the fear of losing one's mobile phone. But it also
highlighted my concern that we were starting to invent mental health issues for
the sake of it. Read...