Mental health

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• Theresa May: police use Tasers too often against mentally ill

  23 Oct 2014: • Half of those subdued are black or minority ethnic
  • Home secretary to order review of use of force

• How to prevent prison suicides as jails struggle with staff cuts

  22 Oct 2014: Letters: It would be a good idea to utilise the services of the existing listeners to support the efforts of prison officers in keeping watch over potentially suicidal inmates

• Why pay GPs to identify people with dementia if we can’t help them?

  22 Oct 2014: Ann Robinson: There’s no effective treatment yet for dementia. So rather than paying doctors to spot new cases, we should spend the £55 where it will make a difference

• ‘I would know if another prisoner wanted to give me a kicking’

  21 Oct 2014: As report reveals poor safety in a third of UK adult male prisons, ex-inmates reveal impact of lack of support in bullying culture

• Hardwick report looks at whole prison experience for clues to suicide spike

  21 Oct 2014: Report by chief inspector draws out details of life in adult male prisons that he said contributed to prisoners’ vulnerability
  

• While waging the 'war' against cancer, we have lost sight of the broader view of health

  21 Oct 2014: Ranjana Srivastava: The emphasis on a disease rather than the whole patient is misplaced – and hapless patients discover that their concerns are relegated to the bottom of the healthcare hierarchy

• Russian artist cuts off earlobe in protest at use of forced psychiatry on dissidents

  20 Oct 2014: Pyotr Pavlensky, who once nailed his scrotum to Red Square’s cobblestones, says protest is over return to Soviet-era methods

• Housing First: the 'counterintuitive' method for solving urban homelessness

  20 Oct 2014: Despite the global recession, homelessness in cities around the world is falling. Can a controversial strategy to give homeless people a roof first – that is, before addressing drug abuse or mental health – take the credit?
  

• Postnatal depression: ‘I went downhill very fast’

  20 Oct 2014: Joanna Friend was given tranquillisers and antidepressants, and spent a week on a psychiatric unit when she relapsed

• Gaps in mental health care for new mothers cost UK £8bn a year – study

  20 Oct 2014: Maternal Mental Health Alliance says NHS would need to spend £337m a year to bring care up to recommended levels

• Ministers urged to investigate rate of prison suicides

  18 Oct 2014: Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan says prisons have become dens of violence and number of deaths is a national disgrace

• 'You don't ever get over it': meet the British soldiers living with post-traumatic stress disorder

  18 Oct 2014: Robert Kilgour blames a history of violence on his time in the army – and he’s not alone. As British soldiers withdraw from Afghanistan and Iraq, Simon Hattenstone and Eric Allison meet the veterans still living in the line of fire

• What can we do to take the pain out of loneliness?

  17 Oct 2014: Letters: We seem to be in a vicious cycle where individualism makes it increasingly difficult to provide mutual support and affection

• Do you have a problem with stuff? How to rethink hoarding disorder

  Guardian Professional, 17 Oct 2014: Jamie Hickling: Hoarding is a complex issue and housing managers need to help people tackle it for themselves

• Generation Y didn’t go crazy in a vacuum. How can we enjoy life when our future is so uncertain?

  17 Oct 2014: Eleanor Robertson: Born into a bizarro world controlled by baby boomers who have comprehensively shafted us, it’s a credit to our resilience and adaptability that we’ve managed to get this far at all

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