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A real dark place to be - Depression in cricket

8th June 2011 11:25 a.m.

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.

Is there still a place for a breakdown?

31st May 2011 10:55 a.m.

Theresa Roberts

With the big soaps once again featuring mental health storylines, Theresa Roberts asks whether past terminologies still can have a place in modern society.

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BBC Breakfast News story highlights mental health at work worries

16th May 2011 11:32 a.m.

Steve Cooksley

BBC Breakfast News ran a story about how some employees with mental health problems would not discuss their illness with their employers for fear of dismissal. A good and a bad example of mental health awareness in the workplace are highlighted in the piece.

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.

TV Watch - week ending 29 Jan 2011

24th January 2011 11:44 a.m.

Steve Cooksley

A digest of forthcoming television programmes that feature mental health issues on the mainstream channels this week.

TV Watch - week ending 22 Jan 2011

17th January 2011 11:02 a.m.

Steve Cooksley

A digest of forthcoming television programmes that feature mental health issues on the mainstream channels this week.

Frankie Boyle's loony sketch

16th December 2010 03:19 p.m.

Andrew Mayor

Frankie Boyle’s spoof mental health stigma advert (Episode 2, Tramadol Nights, Channel Four, 7 Dec) was clearly intended to enhance his reputation as a fearless comic for whom no subject is taboo. But was this just a cowardly attack on a soft target?

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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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Writeway looks ahead

17th November 2010 02:59 p.m.

Steve Cooksley

Welcome to the first of a series of blogs from Oxleas' Writeway campaign, whose aim is to actively engage with the local and national media and to positively promote mental health awareness. In these blogs we will be reviewing a news story or television programme that we believe has portrayed mental illness in either a positive or negative light, as well as keeping you notified of forthcoming television programmmes that involves mental health issues and may be worth watching. A film to look out for is David Cronenberg's Spider (2002), which airs on Friday 3rd December on BBC2 at 11:50pm. ...