World Mental Health Day 2018
Today is World Mental Health day 2018. There are 4,500 deaths from suicide in the UK annually, and 800,00 worldwide. That should be a massive wake-up call for us all. The UK government now has a minister for suicide prevention (https://www.bbc.com/news/health-45804225) with a brief that covers mental health, inequalities and suicide prevention. Will she succeed? If more resources are provided then this will be a good start. Particularly as mental health has long been the poor relation of physical medicine. But tempting though it might be to delegate responsibility to a person or a group and welcome improvements in the provision of resources, good mental health is something that should engage each and every one of us each and every hour of every day. A great deal of mental angst may have an external trigger such as a traumatic event. But how we think during the course of our day may also be just as important. If we allow continually f...