The Duchess of Cambridge has called for the “taboo” of mental health to be broken as she guest edits the Huffington Post for the day. The duchess wrote that for too long parents have been “embarrassed” to admit children …
Category Archives: Mental Illness
Kate Middleton Pens Blog on Children's Mental Health – Us Weekly
Kate Middleton made her blogging debut on Wednesday, February 17, as she took the reins as Huffington Post's Guest Editor in a bid to raise awareness and understanding of children's mental health issues.
These brave mothers' stories must chip away at the stigma of …
This is causing a tragedy on an unbelievable scale: at least one in 10 women suffer from depression in pregnancy or postnatally, but only one in 10 of those women get the help they need. Even for extremely severe forms of illnesses, such as those depicted in … The two women featured in the documentary, Hannah and Jenny, both suffered a severe episode of illness known as postpartum psychosis. To show what this illness is, and why specialist treatment should be …
Forget about a mental health revolution without new cash | Polly …
Suicide rates are rising, as is self-harming, with services so bad that lives are “put on hold or ruined” for lack of care, with mental health patients dying 15 to 20 years earlier than others. Beds are so scarce that 2,000 acutely ill …
Covering Your Health Special Report: Battling mental illness | KIMT 3
We talk to two people in our area who fight mental illness on a daily basis.