Watching my daughter fight the fidgets as she takes part in her latest Google Classroom call with a remote teacher and fellow pupils, I haven’t the nerve to tell her that the promised return to school straight after February half-term ain’t gonna happen. Because Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said today …
Read More »‘Mad Lives Matter’: how a one-man protest at my doctor’s surgery exposes the mental health crisis caused by our Covid lockdowns
Whenever I have visited my doctor’s surgery to pick up a prescription over the past few months, I have walked past a one-man protest. He occupies the surgery’s waiting room, much to the annoyance of the staff, on a daily basis. His complaint is, as his placard explains, simple: “Mad …
Read More »UK lockdown laws may help against the new Covid-19 strain, but the strain on kids’ mental health is too high a price
As the dread sunk in following Boris Johnson’s announcement at 4pm on Saturday that London and large parts of the southeast of England would be placed under Tier 4 of the pandemic lockdown’s draconian measures I felt an irrational urge to pack the family in the car and flee to …
Read More »Spain officially ends FORCED sterilization of people with mental disabilities – a practice still LEGAL in many US states
The Spanish government officially ended the forced sterilization of disabled people on Thursday, publishing new legislation in an official newsletter. According to the newsletter, “In the last decade, more than a thousand forced sterilizations have been practiced in Spain, most of them on women.” “The end to this practice…brings an …
Read More »PTSD, panic attacks, insomnia: 1 in 5 Covid-19 patients develop mental illness within three months, new study finds
In a study published in The Lancet Psychiatry journal, researchers from the University of Oxford have analyzed electronic medical record of 69 million people living in the US. It included 62,354 individuals who were diagnosed with Covid-19 between January 20 and August 1. The scientists found that 20 percent of …
Read More »Erdogan says Macron needs ‘mental health treatment’ and doesn’t understand freedom of religion
“What is Macron’s problem with Islam and Muslims? He needs mental health treatment,” Erdogan said at a meeting of the ruling Justice and Development Party on Saturday, Turkish media reported. Erdogan has been highly critical of the rhetoric Macron has employed to combat Islamic extremism in France. In early October, …
Read More »Media offers new weapon to protect Biden: Suggesting his mental health is failing means you’re part of a Russian conspiracy
The report by ABC News on Wednesday cited internal emails, and the media outlet said a DHS spokesperson confirmed that distribution of the bulletin to federal, state and local law enforcement agencies had been delayed. The spokesperson said the bulletin didn’t meet quality standards, including having sufficient evidence and context, …
Read More »Shaman Gabysheva, who went to Moscow to “banish Putin” was discharged from the mental hospital
Alexander Gabyshev, known as the shaman, who rushed on foot from Yakutia to the Kremlin to expel Putin, was discharged from the mental hospital, where he was placed by force. About it as transfers “Interfax”, said the coordinator “Advocacy Cards” Alexey Pryanishnikov. The human rights activist believes that the publicity …
Read More »Single people likely to develop mental illness
All of these people were participants of the national survey of mental health conducted in England. Discovered another negative side of loneliness – it gives people an increased tendency to develop mental illness. Single people are at increased risk of developing mental illness, this was stated by French scientists from …
Read More »A suspect in the murder of his brother, Kim Jong-UN ended up in a mental hospital
She was sent for examination.The accused in the murder of Kim Jong-Nam is the eldest brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-UN – the citizen of Vietnam, Doan thi Huong was taken to a psychiatric hospital in Kuala Lumpur. 30-year-old Huong was sent to a mental hospital because of “extreme …
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