Sindy Prankard tells the poignant tale of her struggle to raise a teenager suffering from mental ill health – and how, despite everything, she is prouder of him than ever. When the first glow of [… read more ]
The ruling adminstration of Portsmouth City Council has set out its budget savings proposals for 2016/17 to deliver £11 million of savings in the next financial year, responding directly to priorities identified by just under [… read more ]
Rikki May gives his own insights into overcoming mental ill health in this moving memoir of his experiences of anxiety. I used to want to get away from the word ‘anxiety’ – to run from it [… read more ]
Writer and mental health campaigner Rikki May recounts his difficult relapse last year and shares with us some of the invaluable lessons he learned. What does relapse mean? To many, it means failure and falling [… read more ]
Christine Lawrence takes a walk around St James’ Hospital, tracing the long history of the building and recalling her time working there in the 1980s as she wonders about the plans to sell and convert [… read more ]
Sinderlie Prankard asks: has Facebook highlighted the problem of self-harm or exacerbated it? The death last year of actor Robin Williams once again brought mental health problems to public attention. Preliminary results of the forensic [… read more ]
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