- “Poor mental health and well-being can have an impact on every area of a person’s life; physical health, education, employment, family, relationships, and the effects can last a lifetime. It plays an important part of in contributing to and maintaining health and social inequalities. Good mental health and well-being are associated with improved outcomes for individuals including longevity, physical health, social connectedness, educational achievement, criminality, maintaining a home, employment status and productivity.”
Mental health, once again in sick repetition, has been pushed to the back; shoved under the carpet; mothballed in the wardrobe.
Here in Norfolk we get the the exclusion of mental health shoved in our faces; the local authority adult social care avoidance of any mention (apart from a scant nod in the direction of dementia); social care personal budgets pushing it into a separate silo; NHS pilots of personal budgets quivering at the mere mention; some people with sensory and physical disabilities openly discriminating against those with mental health problems; health staff in local hospitals vehemently taking the attitude that mental health is not their job.
Localism promotes discrimination.