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Re-Branding Schizophrenia - Would Changing the Name Make a Difference?

Dr. Sohom Das | Posted 27.01.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Stigma, Psychiatry, Mental Illness, Mental Health, Mental Health Stigma, Psychiatrist, Rethink Mental Illness, Schizophrenia, UK Lifestyle News
Dr. Sohom Das

hose who cringe at the S-word I suspect would eventually discover its successor (probably from reading the Daily Mail), and react similarly to the new name. I doubt changing in the terminology would improve their attitudes. Bigots are bigots.

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Dying 20 Years Too Soon

Mark Davies | Posted 22.05.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Mental Illness, Doctors, Physical Health, Health Care, Health, Rethink Mental Illness, UK Impact, UK Health, UK Lifestyle, UK Lifestyle News
Mark Davies

People with mental illness die 20 years younger than average, often from preventable physical conditions - but it doesn't have be that way.

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Depression is a Killer: It Needs Rebranding

Kat Brown | Posted 10.01.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Suicide, Mental Illness, Depression, Mental Health, Mental Illness Stigma, Rethink Mental Illness, Self-Harm, UK Lifestyle, UK Lifestyle News
Kat Brown

People still don't understand enough about depression, even now with all the blogs, the websites and the famous faces associated with it. Some of the most brilliant, funny, wonderful people I know are crippled by depression and it's a hideous waste.

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Middle-Class Parents Need to Rethink Their Lazy Laid-Back Attitude to Cannabis

Mark Davies | Posted 06.01.2012 | UK
Read More: UK, Cannabis, Drugs, Mental Health, Marijuana, UK Politics, UK Lifestyle, Rethink Mental Illness, UK News
Mark Davies

The view that smoking cannabis is nothing to get worked up about needs to be challenged more effectively. Instead of classifying and re-classifying, government time and money would be much better spent on educating young people who smoke cannabis about the very real game of Russian roulette they're playing with their mental health.

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