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Mind and Sport England extend Get Set to Go programme

Mind is delighted to announce that Sport England has awarded us £1.5 million in National Lottery funding to extend the Get Set to Go programme. Up to 2.8m people with mental health problems could potentially benefit from the expansion of a pilot scheme by Mind and Sport England to help more people with mental healthContinueContinue reading “Mind and Sport England extend Get Set to Go programme”

A psychiatrist explains how seeing problems in the brain makes stigma disappear

As a psychiatrist, I find that one of the hardest parts of my job is telling parents and their children that they are not to blame for their illness. Children with emotional and behavioral problems continue to suffer considerable stigma. Many in the medical community refer to them as “diagnostic and therapeutic orphans.” Unfortunately, forContinueContinue reading “A psychiatrist explains how seeing problems in the brain makes stigma disappear”

Male mental health: I lost my dad to suicide at 17, and then experienced depression myself

Through the experience of first losing his father to suicide from depression this brave man faced his own battle with depression discovering along the way that through talking he could fight and win… he now continues the fight by being a part of the Heads Together campaign.