Bid to beat mental health stigma.A poster campaign to combat the stigma stigma: see pistil. Stigma mark of Cain God’s mark on Cain, a sign of his shame for fratricide. [O. T.: Genesis 4:15] scarlet letter associated with mental ill-health has been launched in Huddersfield Posters are to be distributed across Kirklees health centres, GP surgeries, colleges and libraries in a bid to end the negative hype surrounding mental illness. The drive, by South West Yorkshire West Yorkshire, former metropolitan county, N central England. Created in the 1974 local government reorganization, the county largely embraced the Leeds conurbation and comprised five metropolitan districts: Calderdale, Bradford, Leeds, Wakefield, and Kirklees. Mental Health NHS Trust National Health Service Trusts (NHS Trusts) provide many services of the National Health Service in England and Wales. They are not trusts in the legal sense but are in effect public sector corporations. , aims to highlight how one in four people in the UK will suffer from mental health problems including depression, stress, anxiety and schizophrenia this year. Sukhdev Sharma, chairman of the Trust, said: "Mental health is just like physical health. "It can be good or bad, lead to problems that last for a few weeks or months or ones that need to be managed over a lifetime." The poster will be displayed across Kirklees, Calderdale and Wakefield. |
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