Why don’t we spend more on mental health care?

Even with those who thankfully do not take their own lives, this delay in treatment leads to an increase in absence from work, reduction in productivity and unemployment.

Whether you look at mental health from a compassionate or economic view point it makes solid, logical sense to stump up the money for high quality, early care.

So why don’t we?

We need to start demanding it. Real action, not empty words and empty promises.

So what can we do? As individuals not a lot, but the power of numbers is harder to ignore.

We can donate to charities that make a positive difference, we can petition our companies to take proactive steps in the well-being of their staff, we can petition our MPs, we can join protests, we can raise awareness of the facts with friends who are unaware and as such increase the number of people who may be calling for change, we can sign petitions calling for increases in spending on mental health.

It may often seem futile, that we will never be heard, but the more who raise their voice, the louder we become, the harder to ignore we become. Plus it is better to fail while trying than know you never did anything about it.

Contact your MP

Petition your business

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