Posts Tagged "Mental health issues"

Mental health charities have welcomed a recent debate in the House of Commons which saw a series of MPs reveal their personal experiences of mental health problems, some for the first time. According to figures gathered by the Mental Health Foundation, 1 in 4 people in the UK will experience some sort of problem affecting [...]

Published author Susanna Kaysen, wrote of her experience in a psychiatric institution in 1960`s America, in her book titled “Girl Interrupted”. At the age of 18 Susanna spent almost 2 years in a psychiatric hospital, on a ward specifically for teen age girls. This frank memoir, illustrates how mental health was treated in 60`s America. [...]