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...health difficulties share insights into what it can be like and how to find support...Find out more about The Open University's Health and wellbeing courses and qualifications. The early days of pregnancy and new parenthood are often described as joyful, hopeful, and life affirming (Doss & Rhoades, 2017). A new baby can represent so many things, such as love, connection,...

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...health charities, are keen to press upon the curious that there’s rarely, if ever, a single factor that leads to any self-inflicted death and that mental illness, most commonly depression, usually precedes such an event. “But the really important point is, most people with depression don’t kill themselves,” O’Connor tells me. “Less than 5 per cent do. So...

...health. Trouble is, says Simon Leigh, there's no real evidence they can deliver...The unmet need for mental health services is reaching an unprecedented level thanks to rising demand and continually falling NHS resources. Monthly referrals to community mental health teams increased by 13% in 2013, and 16% in the case of crisis services. Yet more than 200 full-time NHS...

...Health Day 2026 asks us not just to give people with lived experience a voice, but to make sure those voices are heard...Over the last three decades, we have witnessed something approaching a paradigm shift in mental health: from an approach dominated by pathology, diagnosis and professional expertise towards one increasingly shaped by people’s lived experience,...

...health and wellbeing inequalities? ...Background Ageing well need not be expensive nor be exclusive to the selected few. Using greenspaces, we have been examining how to age well, as part of the Open University and MK Parks Trust’s initiative. Unfortunately, health inequalities still abound, and Part I of our article has attempted to understand potential causes. The...