Community Care

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Under section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) there is the added ingredient that the person cannot be charged for services and therefore the costs for the relevant local authority are often higher. The MHA code of practice (paragraphs 33.20

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Psychological Health Care

OCTOBER 22, 2023

However, that fact will provide little consolation if your symptoms are so severe as to send you to a hospital emergency department fearing a heart attack or some other life-threatening illness. Additionally, studies show an anxiety disorder will affect nearly 30% of all adults at some stage in their lives. What Are Anxiety Disorders?

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MQ Mental Health

MAY 2, 2024

Last week, a ruling was published rejecting calls from over 30 organisations to look at the impact the pandemic had on the mental health of children and adults as part of the Covid-19 Inquiry. This} decision means key questions will go unanswered, questions like: Why was there no public mental health plan?

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MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This Eating Disorders Awareness Week, MQ’s copywriter Juliette Burton who also works as a writer, comedian, and mental health activist, shares her experience of what happened the day she was sectioned under the mental health act for anorexia. I’m going back to yet another hospital. I thought.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

OCTOBER 11, 2022

World Mental Health Day- 10th October 2022. Both these non-communicable Mental Health issues can be addressed with timely intervention of the Psychiatrists at the Nair Hospital and other hospitals. Video addressing Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Video addressing depression.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

For the past seventy-two hours I had been a guest of Mercy Hospital’s emergency room and both the hospital and I had settled in for the wait. I had my own room, a real hospital bed instead of an ER examination cot, and a menu card for the next day’s meals. I think I need to go to a hospital.” I think…” I started. “I

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MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Tackling mental health disorders among survivors of COVID-19 should be a priority, say researchers. A study published by The BMJ today finds that COVID-19 is associated with an increased risk of mental health disorders, including anxiety, depression, substance use, and sleep disorders, up to one year after initial infection.

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Bipolar Bandit

MARCH 7, 2024

First, let me say it is not easy living with someone with bipolar disorder. It is understandable because they have to watch out for their own mental health. I have written a blog How to Support Someone with Bipolar Disorder , but have some things to add. He gets anxious when I am manic and his mental health suffers.

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MQ Mental Health

MARCH 1, 2024

This is just one reason why language around mental health is so important, for example calling someone ‘an anorexic’ is unhelpful as it not only does it sees the condition before the person, but it defines the person by one condition. Many people might think one eating disorder fits one person for their whole life.

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MQ Mental Health

MARCH 1, 2024

This is just one reason why language around mental health is so important, for example calling someone ‘an anorexic’ is unhelpful as it not only does it sees the condition before the person, but it defines the person by one condition. Many people might think one eating disorder fits one person for their whole life.

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Bipolar Bandit

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Wh at is Mental Health? Mental health reflects “our emotional, psychological, & social well-being.”. Mental health can affect, how we think, feel, & act. You can have both good or bad mental health. . You can have both good or bad mental health. . What is Mental Illness?

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MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Diabetes is a metabolic disorder. Mental Health and Diabetes Physical illness and mental illness are often interrelated. The research shows the importance of finding people most at risk and monitoring their cardiovascular health. What is diabetes? MQ were are a key part of this.

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Social Care

MAY 4, 2023

This week is Deaf Awareness Week and the experts from Cygnet Hospital Bury, who provide specialist mental health support to deaf people, have shed light on why members of the deaf community are more prone to mental health conditions and how treatment can be adapted.

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MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

While travel might be challenging for someone with mental illness, it can also be life-enhancing. In this personal story from Juliette Burton that has key points backed by research, we explore how one person’s mental health challenges can be improved by exploring the world. I’ve been abroad alone for work, not for leisure.

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MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Autistic individuals have an increased risk for mental health problems. Around 70% of children meet diagnostic criteria for a mental health problem and among adults over 50% receive a psychiatric diagnosis. were hospitalized due to a psychiatric disorder. By age 25, 62.4%

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Famcare

JUNE 29, 2023

Mental health issues have been identified in more than 50 million Americans. The most prevalent mental ailment among Americans is depression, but they also have bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety, OCD, and PTSD.

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Bipolar Bandit

MARCH 30, 2022

Inpatient Hospitalization. Partial Hospitalization. Mobile Apps Apps for Mental Health Pinterest Apps for Bipolar Disorder. Support Groups. Therapists. Religious Groups. ECT (Electroconvulsive therapy) Information. TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation) Information. ALTERNATIVE. Nutritional: Omega-3.

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MQ Mental Health

JUNE 14, 2023

MQ supporter Giles Addison kindly shared his personal experience of being diagnosed with Schizoaffective Disorder. Giles’ condition is related to but separate as a diagnosis from both Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder. If I was in an accident and I broke my leg I reckon on most days I’d get a visit in hospital.

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MQ Mental Health

MARCH 16, 2023

Recently, a systematic review and meta-analysis was published in The British Medical Journal , which looked at mental health symptoms before and during the Covid-19 pandemic. It says that at a population level in these countries, there was little change in the prevalence of mental ill-health. But is this the full picture?

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MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This International Men’s Day (19 November) we’re celebrating the amazing achievements of men working in mental health research. We’re focusing on 5 amazing men who have made impact in the world of mental health science. We’re focusing on 5 amazing men who have made impact in the world of mental health science.

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MQ Mental Health

MAY 10, 2022

This year’s Mental Health Awareness Week is all about loneliness and its impact on mental health. A study by the Mental Health Foundation and Swansea University , which MQ supported, found that over two thirds of British teenagers reported feeling lonely some or most of the time. But what are the facts?

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Stop Abuse Campaign

MAY 4, 2022

If you’ve ever felt concerned about your mental health, you’re not alone. Mental health is an increasingly important issue in our society. Roughly 1 in 5 adults report experiencing mental health problems each year. Our individual experiences are what shape our mental and emotional health.

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Relias

JULY 14, 2022

The obstetrics community has focused on addressing high-risk areas such as maternal sepsis, postpartum hemorrhage, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, fetal heart monitoring, non-medically indicated Cesarean births, and shoulder dystocia emergencies. A Personal Story of Maternal Mental Health.

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KVC

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

KVC Missouri and Great Circle, two nonprofits with a shared mission to provide high-quality children’s mental health and family services, have finalized the agreement that will guide their integration. We can truly transform the face of foster care and mental health.” Louis and elsewhere.

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The Masked AMHP

MAY 31, 2021

The inquest reported that she was a patient of the local CMHT, and had also been assessed by the hospital psychiatric. She had received treatment at the Emergency Department in Truro three times in 4 days in September 2018. A week later she died of a fourth overdose.

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Lawson Psychology

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Coping through Christmas with an eating disorder Christmas can be a very difficult and challenging time for people with eating disorders or difficult relationships with food. Move on notice: Parents, loved ones of people with eating disorders, please learn to move conversations on if there are too many intrusive inquiries.

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Bipolar Bandit

OCTOBER 31, 2022

I had mental illness episodes of extreme anxiety, depression, mania, and psychosis at different times from 1983-1992. I also worked in the mental health field for three years during this time, helping mentally ill patients in hospital settings. I had memories of being mistreated by hospital staff.

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MQ Mental Health

AUGUST 16, 2021

We reached out to our Momentus givers to share their mental health stories with us. They told us why mental health research matters to them. Our Momentus givers are generous people who donate monthly to support life-saving mental health research. We simply can't do what we do without their generosity.

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The Masked AMHP

JULY 14, 2021

On 11th June 2019 Brooke Martin, who was 19, was found suspended from a ligature point in her bedroom at Chadwick Lodge Hospital run by Elysium Healthcare. She had diagnoses of Autism and Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder and had been detained under s.3 3 of the Mental Health Act.

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Bipolar Bandit

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

It has taken a long time for me to come to terms with my diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Before 2002 I had been in and out of the hospital with depression; there was the idea floating about that I was exhibiting signs of bipolar, but I had yet to have a manic phase, so they could not diagnose me as such.

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MQ Mental Health

APRIL 2, 2024

In an interview with The Guardian in 2019, she discussed the toll that the job can take on her mental health and the importance of taking care of herself. Since 2019, the total annual cost of poor mental health to employers has increased by 25%, costing UK employers up to £56 billion a year – according to a report by Deloitte.

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Social Care

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

When I was growing up, a member of my family suffered very bad anxiety, depression and post -traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). At the time, mental health was a taboo subject. I can remember having weekly counselling sessions and asking what mental health support was available for carers.

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Social Care

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Mental Health Nurses Day takes place this week (Wednesday 21 February), an opportunity to celebrate the unique contribution nurses and support workers make to our profession. A registered nurse for more than 20 years, David Wilmott has worked across a number of services, including acute and mental health.

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Abuse Survivor

MARCH 22, 2022

I try my best to live in the now but my PTSD is a disorder is constantly flashing memories at me and a range of other symptoms that are difficult and exhausting to cope with. I have struggled with this for years. I’m still in the process of talking myself through, researching specific things, and talking myself through more.

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MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Lea Milligan, CEO of MQ Mental Health Research said: “It is ground-breaking research like this from Dr Eccles and her team that helps to dismantle the barriers to healthcare for people who might usually find it difficult to access. You can read the full study here.

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MQ Mental Health

APRIL 5, 2024

Ahmari investigated what happens in the brain to cause OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) specifically, whether complications in the brain’s circuits may cause symptoms. However, understanding of how serotonin is involved in mental health conditions at a cellular level is still limited.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 29, 2022

I was entrusted to a mental hospital in Brattleboro, Vermont at age fifteen. This would be the first of many unsuccessful psychiatric hospital stays. I begin looking further into more advanced rehabs, but research has shown me that I couldn’t find one mental rehabilitation center that accepted Medicaid or Medicare in the US.

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