January 2019

It’s funny how things unexpectedly connect. I took part in a webinar on veterans’ health organised by the BMA last year. I suppose I booked it because, as an old age psychiatrist, I don’t remember seeing many veterans. The blurb for the webinar asserted that “most healthcare professionals don’t ask or know if their patient […]

Mental health. What do you understand that to mean? Of course by mental health we often mean mental ill-health: “I’m seeing someone about my mental health”, “he’s an in-patient in a mental health unit”. How come mental health is used to mean mental ill-health? What is that about? People talk about the stigma of mental