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Mental health awareness weeks are not interventions. Neither is a yoga app subscription. So what actually works? The visibility problem Workplace mental health has never had a higher profile. Organisations run awareness campaigns. They offer employee assistance programmes. They train mental health first aiders. They share content on social media in October. And yet the […]
When the ground shifts, the organisations that hold people together are the ones that thought about it before the crisis hit. Crises do not arrive with warning A global pandemic. A sudden restructure. A major cyber incident. A leader falling. Sustained economic pressure that grinds on for months with no clear end. Crises come in […]
Here’s something that should keep every health minister, chief constable, and NHS trust board awake at night: the people we rely on most in our darkest moments are themselves in crisis. Report after report tells us the same story. Paramedics experiencing PTSD at rates comparable to combat veterans. Doctors leaving the profession in numbers we’ve […]
You’ve heard it. I’ve heard it. At some point in the last few years, nearly every organisation has said some version of it: “We want people to bring their whole selves to work.” It sounds good. It sounds progressive. It sounds like the kind of thing that belongs on a careers page next to photos […]
If you scroll through social media for more than five minutes, you’ll come across a post telling you that men don’t talk about their feelings. That men bottle things up. That they suffer in silence. And there’s truth in that narrative. The statistics are well-documented: men account for around three quarters of all suicides in […]
Peter Kelly, who authored the new RCVS guide on suicide prevention with Sarah Ambrose, on the four patterns every leader should take from it.
Someone asked me recently whether music could play a role in workplace mental health. My first reaction was that it’s an interesting idea. My second was that it’s actually more interesting than I initially gave it credit for. We all know, instinctively, that music does something to us. It shifts our mood. It helps us […]
This one might be uncomfortable. But I think it’s important. Over the past few years, a loosely connected network of online communities — often grouped under the term “the manosphere” — has grown significantly in reach and influence. These spaces include figures promoting self-improvement alongside others pushing more extreme views about gender, relationships, masculinity, and […]
A recent documentary examined something many of us sense but rarely articulate: artificial intelligence is increasingly replacing genuine human relationships. Not just in obvious ways — chatbots and virtual assistants — but in subtler, more pervasive ways that are reshaping how we connect, communicate, and relate to one another. The implications for mental health are […]
When a well-known figure speaks publicly about their mental health struggles, the response is often immediate and overwhelmingly positive. They are praised for their bravery, applauded for raising awareness, and held up as an example of what openness looks like. Articles are written, interviews are shared, and social media fills with supportive messages. Now consider […]
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