Successive governments refuse to recognize that mental illness affects an overwhelming majority on people of a less economic social category (Wes Streeting: There is an excessive diagnosis of mental health conditions, March 16). There is a reason because antidepressants are much higher in areas where poverty is prevalent.
I am a mental health nurse in struggle NHS. I also struggle to cover their expenses in an era in which my expenses do not leave me almost. I pay a high rent to millions of millions and I cannot provide a penny. I don’t really enjoy my work fruits with the dependents.
This means that when the day of payment reaches every month, this is the time of anxiety, low mood and stress, because I know that I will reconcile my budget again and know ways to give my children a good quality of life. Mental health The nurses are assigned to be “parents of hope”, but when we see the continuous assault at most weak, and they rule the world, it may be difficult to stick to our hope.
Keir Starmer once again proves that he is another strong leader who has no political will to accept evidence and address the inequality that continues and exacerbates.
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You may or the Minister of Health’s comments on the excess diagnosis of mental health conditions may not be correct, but the discussion about the excess diagnosis misses the point when it comes to determining whether people are appropriate to work or not. I have worked widely as a mental health consultant 20 years ago and at the acute end to help people with chronic mental health conditions to return to work. It is not a matter of making people in a 100 % remission so that they can use their skills in the workplace. The employers have helped determine the “reasonable adjustments” that would help employees who are still suffering from daily symptoms, but are not serious enough to prevent their performance.
As for treatment, it has seen the emergence of the program to improve access to psychological treatments, which is now called NHS Talking. Created on the back of Layard report Certainly from the government of Blair, its purpose was to return people who suffer from common mental health conditions to the workplace. I would like to see the data available about the effectiveness of this program, which was trumpet as a solution to the problem that the country faced at that time, and is still facing today.
Michael Stockwell
BASINGSTOKE, Hampsheer
