mental health

I've written before about mental health and 'masking'. In this post I explore this further, with the illustrative example of an early-career solicitor who got in trouble with the Solicitors Regulatory Authority who didn't accept that mental health played a part in their behaviour.

I'm not going to comment on the impact of the pandemic on mental health in general. I'm going to talk about me. My experience of mental health crisis during the pandemic might be of limited value in learning about the general situation, but it's what I can talk about with authority, and I think there are some lessons to learn from it.

Wow. It's been a while since I updated this site. Well, now I've updated it in a big way. Very soon you should see posts about shared decision making, videos, and some reasons why I haven't been as active, related to mental health. I'm looking into making videos to share online as well.

You probably have a stereotype in mind about disabled people - how they act, how they talk, how they look. This post explores how the stereotype is wrong, the phenomenon of people with mental health conditions 'masking', and the costs of doing so.