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My Mum works as the head of a chaplaincy team for a large psychiatric hospital in london. I've been in to run errands for her a few times over the last decade that she's been working there, and we often talk about mental health care issues. Often it's about the stigma attached.
Debates or conversations surrounding mental illness are always characterized by a lack of good, evidence based information. It's so sad particularly because mental illness is so common. All of us know someone who is suffering some form of mental illness, or has done- or it may be us. So why is it so mysterious?
On a forum where we justifiably portray ourselves as vulnerable cyclists who are on occasion victimized by aggressive motorists, if we just empathise with some of the most vulnerable people around us that'd be a good start.