Cinema review: Still Alice
Sad films may be ten-a-penny, but it’s very rare to find one that can hit you right in the gut like this without feeling heavy-handed or overly-manipulative.
Sad films may be ten-a-penny, but it’s very rare to find one that can hit you right in the gut like this without feeling heavy-handed or overly-manipulative.
Is there such a thing as a rational suicide? This is the controversial question to be addressed during a debate at Manchester Museum as part of SICK! Festival.
Schools are being urged to combat high levels of physical and mental illness in young people and teachers by nominating themselves for a new national health and wellbeing initiative.
Self-harm rates are increasing in Manchester, shocking new statistics have revealed.
Jessica Smith talks to MM about her journey dealing with anxiety and her Great Manchester Run aspirations to raise money for Anxiety UK.
Margaret O’Brien admitted to becoming ‘friends’ with Patient A while working as a staff nurse in the male section of Moorside Unit, a psychiatric ward at Trafford General Hospital.
The report, titled ‘Healthy Services and Safer Patients’, is based on nearly 14,000 patient suicides which occurred between 2004 and 2012.
A former St John Ambulance youth volunteer, who was honoured by Princess Anne for her dedication to charity work, was found hanged after she complained of being intimidated by noisy neighbours.
Mancunians Google the search term ‘depression’ every two minutes, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they are depressed, according to a number of mental health professionals.
There’s nothing quite like the dreaded feeling of returning to work after a well-earned Christmas break.
Rochdale Council are hoping to move the remaining residents of a care home that left patients in soiled clothing into alternative accommodation in the coming weeks.
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