Celebrities Who Have Lived With Mental Illness
Knowing about a few celebrities Who Have lived With mental health challenges is a great way to help not feel so alone.
So we thought we would share this infographic to make up the positivity this holiday season.
If you can suggest a few more names please do share in the comments section below!
From Visually.
World Mental Health Day – Dignity
Today as you may know is World Mental Health Day 2015 this year’s theme is “Dignity in mental health” You might be interested in our World Mental Health Day infographic which can be found here.
Thousands of people with mental health conditions around the world are deprived of their human rights. As well as being discriminated against, stigmatized and marginalized, they are also subject to emotional and physical abuse in both mental health facilities and the community. Poor quality care due to a lack of qualified health professionals and dilapidated facilities leads to further violations.
This year, the World Health Organisation will be raising awareness of what can be, and is being, done to ensure that people with mental health conditions can continue to live with dignity, through human rights-oriented policy and law, training of health professionals, respect for informed consent to treatment, inclusion in decision-making processes, and public information campaigns.
To find out about the state of mental health provision in your country have a look at Mental Health Atlas-2014 country profiles.
When I was young depression was a health issue which was hidden under the carpet.
Indeed at PatientTalk.Org we are strong supporters of the “Time to Change” campaign. You can read up about it here.
So please feel free to share this great infographic which will people open up about depression and get help.
Telemedicine Image courtesy of imagerymajestic at FreeDigitalPhotos.net
In the last few months the subject of telemedicine has reared its head. Whether ugly or not remains to be seen. Telemedicine being defined as “is the use of telecommunication and information technologies in order to provide clinical health care at a distance. It helps eliminate distance barriers and can improve access to medical services that would often not be consistently available in distant rural communities” according to our friends at Wikipedia.
So I was very interested in a report from the UK government which has just come out. The report is entitled “Evaluation of the Telephone Support Psychological Wellbeing and Work Feasibility Pilot”. You can read a summary here. Though I have to say it is one of the worst written documents I have ever cast my eyes over. Which bureaucrats can’t write comprehensible English beats me.
Anyhow the evaluation of the ‘Telephone Support’ intervention which hopes to improve employment and health prospects for people with mental health conditions was on the main pretty positive and further trials are recommended.
So what do you think?
It would be great if you would consider using the comments sections below.
You might want to consider the following questions:-
a) Have you ever used Telemedicine? If so for what reason?
b) How effective was it?
c) Would you recommended it to others?
d) If you have not tried it would you consider doing so?
e) Is telemedicine privatization by the back door?
f) Overall what is your view of telemedicine?
Many thanks in advance
