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Tory Promises to Improve Mental Healthcare Ignore the Reality of Living With Mental Illness
Here's why simplistic rhetoric and a small investment are not going to fix a broken system, which is letting people down.
Mental Health Week on NovaraWire: At some point most of us will have a friend or family member who is mentally unwell. Here are some ideas for how to support friends who are in need without either blaming them for their suffering or trying to become their rescuers.
Mental Health Week on NovaraWire: Despite the historical inability of psychiatry to find biological evidence for mental illnesses, we still use its language when talking about mental health. Is it time we instead returned to a political approach to mental health and psychiatric care?
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