Did you hear the one about there ‘being no health without mental health’?  It was supposed to be a serious Government pledge, just made meaningless by the government decision to cut funding to non-acute services (which includes mental health) by 1.8% (see: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/mar/12/mental-health-funding-changes-lives-risk ) All the social pressures which lead to mental distress are on Continue reading