Posts by Russell Cartwright

Russell Cartwright

Russell is the Head of Communications for Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, and a Trustee of Magpie Dance, an inclusive contemporary dance company for people with learning disabilities.

russell.cartwright@oxleas.nhs.uk

Only one Gary Speed

2nd December 2011 10:33 a.m.

Russell Cartwright

Russell Cartwright writes about the personal sadness he felt following the recent suicide of footballer Gary Speed and hopes it will increase suicide awareness and prevention.

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A real dark place to be - Depression in cricket

8th June 2011 11:25 a.m.

Russell Cartwright

Russell Cartwright discusses the BBC Radio Five Live programme Depression in Cricket in which former England Michael Vaughan interviews Marcus Trescothick, Matthew Hoggard and Kevin Saxelby, whose brother Mark committed suicide.

Awful Mirror article about Catherine Zeta Jones

15th April 2011 09:23 p.m.

Russell Cartwright

Russell Cartwright criticises the way the Daily Mirror first reported Catherine Zeta Jones' admission to a mental health unit with bipolar disorder.

Making drama out of a crisis

22nd November 2010 02:34 p.m.

Russell Cartwright

A new study out this week by SHIFT, the anti-stigma people, looks at how mental illness is portrayed on British TV. Their researchers studied drama programmes on terrestrial stations for three months between the hours of 4pm and 11pm. In this time there were 74 episodes from 34 different programmes containing mental illness related storylines and 434 references to mental health. Making a drama out of a crisis – authentic portrayals of mental illness? finds that: 45% of peak-time programmes with mental illness storylines portrayed people with mental health problems as posing a threat to others. 63% of references to ...

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