Summing up the Mental health debate
A summary of the days proceedings in the House of Commons yesterday as MPs discussed mental health in the UK, for the first time in five years.
All mental health tweeters - let's get #mentalhealthdebate trending today. Pl RT.
It's a big day for MH today, follow the debate and tweet us your with your thoughts during the day #mentalhealthdebate ow.ly/bzwzI- MPs at #mentalhealthdebate now discussing the impact of poor Work Capability Assessments on people with mental health problems.
Policy and campaigns team @mindcharity welling up with such incredible speeches from MPs today #mentalhealthdebate. A really proud day- Health Minister Paul Burstow tells MPs "mental health is about us - all of us". Here here! #mentalhealthdebate
Massive breakthrough in parliemant today: 2 MPs opened up about their mental illness: Kevan Jones & Charles Walker #mentalhealthdebate- @andyburnhamMP mentions our 'We need to talk' campaign for more talking therapies. mind.org.uk/campaigns_and_… #mentalhealthdebate
- @GavinBarwellMP announces that he will introduce the Mental Health Discrimination Bill next week. Fantastic news! #mentalhealthdebate
- MT @scwiggill: Glad to see #mentalhealthdebate trending and those MPs in the house making excellent points, long overdue!
- Lyn Brown highlighting some of the key determinants of mental health problems - age, housing, deprivation #mentalhealthdebate
#mentalhealthdebate MP, GP, or otherwise, you don't need training to learn the art of empathy and understanding.- #mentalhealthdebate Julian Lewis: "people need to know on the occasion that they need the ultimate support, it will be there for them."
- Matthew Offord MP says the media has let us down in it's portrayal of people with mental health problems #mentalhealthdebate
- Andrea Leadsom MP discusses her personal experience of postnatal depression #mentalhealthdebate
Thanks to the MPs today, even more to @MindCharity @rcpsych @Rethink_ @TimetoChange @MHF_tweets for continuous work. #mentalhealthdebate
@MindCharity I asked her to go to #mentalhealthdebate and she did!! My tweeting worked!!!
We've been hoping for 1 MP to speak out since @TimetoChange started 4 yrs ago, now there are 4 in one (historic) day #mentalhealthdebate- @Rethink_ @MindCharity Just emailed all my MP's, MEP's + local councillors 2ask if they went2 #mentalhealthdebate +if not why not?!
@MindCharity @YoungMindsUK MP's who spoke deserve credit. But this is about those who live this every day we mustn't lose sight of that.- Big thanks to everyone tweeting with us for the mh debate. We have storified the summary sfy.co/j0Dj #storify #mentalhealthdebate
