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You couldn't have picked a worse time in Dylan's artistic output to make that sort of a claim.
You couldn't have picked a worse time in Dylan's artistic output to make that sort of a claim.
Had you done it in the middle of the 1980s, you'd have been making an excellent point. In the sort of nadir of Under the Red Sky, you'd be making an absolutely fantastic point.
Had you done it in the middle of the 1980s, you'd have been making an excellent point. In the sort of nadir of Under the Red Sky, you'd be making an absolutely fantastic point.
So the problem is a big one, and we clearly need to add more mental health capacity within the NHS, as if left unchecked, it will only fester. Parliament has even taken submissions from mental health professionals detailing why it's so important to intervene early, laying out that if unchecked, issues can worsen for individuals, leading to negative health and social outcomes for society.
So the problem is a big one, and we clearly need to add more mental health capacity within the NHS, as if left unchecked, it will only fester. Parliament has even taken submissions from mental health professionals detailing why it's so important to intervene early, laying out that if unchecked, issues can worsen for individuals, leading to negative health and social outcomes for society.
And perhaps most ironically for those on the neoliberal bandwagon, it actually leads to negative economic outcomes as well.
And perhaps most ironically for those on the neoliberal bandwagon, it actually leads to negative economic outcomes as well.
I'll tell you what's bad for my mental health, seeing Tony Blair speak about anything in 2025. I think it's really important to try and engage with the fact that the crisis in mental health is not the result of self-diagnosis or over-medicalisation. Many people are living with an undiagnosed mental health condition due to systemic failures to identify and treat conditions early enough.
I'll tell you what's bad for my mental health, seeing Tony Blair speak about anything in 2025. I think it's really important to try and engage with the fact that the crisis in mental health is not the result of self-diagnosis or over-medicalisation. Many people are living with an undiagnosed mental health condition due to systemic failures to identify and treat conditions early enough.
According to Bipolar UK, people with bipolar disorder wait, on average, nine and a half weeks years for a correct diagnosis. This delay has profound human and economic consequences with bipolar related suicides alone costing the UK between ยฃ436 million and ยฃ872 million annually.
According to Bipolar UK, people with bipolar disorder wait, on average, nine and a half weeks years for a correct diagnosis. This delay has profound human and economic consequences with bipolar related suicides alone costing the UK between ยฃ436 million and ยฃ872 million annually.
If you're talking about challenges of life, then by all means, let's have a conversation about the housing crisis, meaning people are struggling to pay their rent or the you know, job insecurity or the fact that real wages have struggled to increase in the last 15 years. If you're worried about why people are worried about the challenges of life, maybe look at kind of systemic inequality.
If you're talking about challenges of life, then by all means, let's have a conversation about the housing crisis, meaning people are struggling to pay their rent or the you know, job insecurity or the fact that real wages have struggled to increase in the last 15 years. If you're worried about why people are worried about the challenges of life, maybe look at kind of systemic inequality.
Do you know what I mean? It is patronising shite that, you know, it's sort of pseudoscience that he doesn't actually seem to substantiate with any hard evidence. And meanwhile, organisations stuffed with experts on this issue are saying that, yeah, there is a mental health crisis, but It's a crisis of people actually getting seen for the mental health problems that they have.
Do you know what I mean? It is patronising shite that, you know, it's sort of pseudoscience that he doesn't actually seem to substantiate with any hard evidence. And meanwhile, organisations stuffed with experts on this issue are saying that, yeah, there is a mental health crisis, but It's a crisis of people actually getting seen for the mental health problems that they have.
As somebody who has experienced a certain number of mental health issues that I've spoken about publicly in the past, I know the only reason that I've been able to see them is because I have been able to pay for private mental health support. That's just a reality of my life. I know that that's the only reason I've been able to get assistance in this. It's incredibly offensive.
As somebody who has experienced a certain number of mental health issues that I've spoken about publicly in the past, I know the only reason that I've been able to see them is because I have been able to pay for private mental health support. That's just a reality of my life. I know that that's the only reason I've been able to get assistance in this. It's incredibly offensive.
to people that are struggling. For somebody that we're constantly told has this incredible political skill and acumen to read the national mood, he's never sounded more divorced from reality.
to people that are struggling. For somebody that we're constantly told has this incredible political skill and acumen to read the national mood, he's never sounded more divorced from reality.