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Dec 2022
32m 33s

Can Mental Health Awareness have uninten...

Bbc Radio 4
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<p>Mental health awareness campaigns have reduced stigma and changed attitudes to mental illness, but has the messaging also led to unintended consequences? With the help of a panel consisting of mental health campaigner James Downs, the former director of Time to Change England Sue Baker, psychologist and author Lucy Foulkes and Katja Pavlovna of the Lives ... Show More
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