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Judith Haire: Posted on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 3:49 PM
The mental health charity Rethink has recently rebranded itself and taken the name Rethink Mental Illness. Note the full stop after Mental Illness. This apparently is very significant. Actually I am not at all interested in the rationale behind the use of a full stop as I don't see Mental Illness as a consumer product and really, if Rethink is one of the charities involved in the Time to Change anti stigma campaign http://www.time-to-change.org.ukthen I see adding Mental Illness to their name as a retrograde step. |
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Judith Haire: Posted on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 3:37 PM
I was interested to see that the Department of Health and Comic Relief have given a further £20m to the Time To Change campaign http://www.time-to-change.org.ukWhile I am sure this campaign is effective and far reaching I can immediately think of better things to spend £20m on. Yes, it is vital to remove the stigma of mental illness and I don't want to take anything away from the TTC campaign, but with local waiting times for counselling and cognitive behavioural therapy standing at 8-12 weeks and up to 18 months respectively, it seems that we are short of many, many counsellors and therapists if we are to reach out to everyone affected by mental illness |
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