Posted: Wednesday, February 15th, 2017 The BBC Panorama current affairs programme broadcast in February highlighted the crisis facing the Mental Health Service in the UK due to under-resourcing. With mental health beds being cut by almost a half since 2000 the number of deaths due to suicide, violence and neglect by people with serious mental illness has been rising alarmingly. […]
Posted: Tuesday, January 17th, 2017 Although most of the media and politicians have been quick to ascribe political and religious motivation to recent attacks in Europe and elsewhere, there is in fact emerging a very disturbing pattern that suggests that some at least of those events may be more closely related to serious mental ill health rather than to religion […]
Posted: Monday, August 8th, 2016 Have you or someone you have been caring for had a Care Plan from the NHS in the UK? If so you may like to take part in a new study being carried out by the University of Manchester. The survey is quite short and is looking particularly into how physical health problems have been […]
Posted: Thursday, May 12th, 2016 Last month saw the anniversary of the passing of the world’s greatest ballet dancer and choreographer, Nijinsky. It was also sad that despite a meteoric early career he was, during his early life, struck down by the serious mental illness that we now know of as schizophrenia and which prevented him from fulfilling his true […]
Posted: Sunday, November 29th, 2015 Living with Schizophrenia has long been strongly critical of the government’s policy of cutting mental health beds in the UK. Now a recent investigation by the respected journal Community Care and the BBC has found that, as we suspected, people have been dying because of lack of beds. In fact seven suicides and one homicide […]
