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In this issue, we want to say Thank You to all our cohort members. Our research wouldn't be possible without you |
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What's in this newsletter?
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Hello from Co-ordinator
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Lay summaries of our research papers
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[Article] Mental health pressures will linger long after lockdownThe number of people with mental illness was rising before the pandemic. Author: Dr Elizabeth Kirkham, University of Edinburgh The UK’s lockdown is loosening. Millions of people have been vaccinated and spring is in the air. Things are looking up; we can stop worrying about that so-called ‘mental health time bomb’ that the pandemic detonated and get back to how things were before. Back to a time when 25 per cent of 16- to 24-year-old women harmed themselves, one in four people experienced mental illness, and 74 per cent of people felt so stressed they had been overwhelmed or unable to cope. Suddenly ‘before’ doesn’t sound so rosy. Given the way mental illness has been framed recently you’d be forgiven for thinking it began with the pandemic, or with lockdown. The data do suggest that, on average, people are feeling more anxious and depressed than they were before the pandemic began. But the headline figures obscure a deeper reality – there is a crisis of mental ill-health in the UK, but it was here long before the pandemic. Resources & Ways to get involvedFollow us on Social Media
Keep up-to-date with us on Twitter @CoMorMent Depression Detectives is a user-led citizen science project which brings together people with lived experience of depression and researchers who study it, as EQUAL partners. We want to make depression research better by listening to and working with non-scientists and putting lived experience at the heart of research.
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My depression, your depression - same name, different storiesThis project explores depression from different angles through digital stories. Watch the videos that have been created so far on the Patient Voices website or as a self-guided walking tour. |
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Dr Iona Beange, Knowledge Exchange and Impact Officer, (iona.beange@ed.ac.uk) Dr Lizzy Kirkham, Postdoctoral Research Associate (elizabeth.kirkham@ed.ac.uk) Prof Andrew McIntosh, WP6 Lead, Chair of Biological Psychiatry Prof Sue-Fletcher Watson, Professor of Developmental Psychology. CoMorMent has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 847776. The contents of this newsletter are the sole responsibility of the CoMorMent project and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union. |
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