And stress kills,\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Ok, we’ve got it, there’s a stress crisis, especially in young people. Last year the independent asked<\/a>\u00a0“How has society managed to produce a generation of teenagers in which mental-health problems are so prevalent?<\/em>“ Good question. Do you remember that quote about doctors being as if downstream on a river dealing with all the casualties flowing by but not being able to get further up the river to see who was pushing them in?<\/p>\n That\u2019s what statistics about stress \u00a0bring to mind this Mental Health Awareness Week 2018.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This isn’t about denying the\u00a0importance of mental health, or of understanding stress and the potential negative effects of it.<\/p>\n It\u2019s just that as a parent (or any other person) it\u2019s hard not to observe that you\u2019d have to be either extremely shielded, or very unaware as a young person not to feel anxious seeing older generations screwing it up, wrecking the planet, funding the bombing of children in other countries, normalising food-banks in their own, the UN judging their country as having broken international treaties on the treatment of its citizens, seeing their country ripped out of Europe because the old fogeys who are gonna die soon said so, while they themselves were denied a vote.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So is it really any more of a stress crisis than it is a political one? Aren\u2019t perfectly normal reactions to unbearable stressors being pathologised? Why on earth would anyone do that?<\/p>\n Surely, says Dando, \u201cmental health services are about saving lives, not money.\u201d<\/p>\n That\u2019s a cosy thought, but disturbingly, evidence shows that it’s not even just about saving money, but also about extorting it!<\/p>\n What a massively lucrative industry mental wellness is turning out to be.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The system is self-perpetuating because once you’ve doctored the political crisis to look like a spontaneous outburst of bad mental health, especially of the young, then those gate-keeping liberals (relatable state agents who’ve created that baloney for you), get to cash in on providing solutions.<\/p>\n That\u2019s right, the very same people who pathologiese perfectly ordinary and reasonable rage and disbelief at vicious social policies, can FIX IT! Yay.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I\u2019d say that would precipitate a very lucrative mental health crisis, and one which will proliferate as people are put under more pressure.<\/p>\n Enter several Pre-loved Kilos of Zen Buddhism repurposed and served up as Mindfulness by modern psychiatrists and mental health academics.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n At far reach from London, but well satellited by Londoners, Plymouth University seems just the sort of place where any corruption, bullying and fakery could well have national ramifications.<\/p>\n There was the chief exec embezzlement fiasco<\/a>, in 2017.<\/p>\n There was also the fake degrees fiasco,<\/a><\/p>\n And one of their research professors, Richard Byng is an upcoming player in the national field of mental wellness, influencing policy as well as being featured as an expert academic and<\/em> a GP.<\/p>\n Yes it\u2019s a meaningless non-sentence, but just think of the money.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n What has this seemingly anodyne interest in the interface between a GP and their patients got to do with reducing stress? By being less informal? Does this indicate a move towards more genuine equality and reciprocity in the relationship? Maybe he just wants to chat informally on the phone, but with all his knowledge and experience. Hmmm<\/p>\n Don\u2019t those formal relationships, and the guidelines around them, exist to some extent to protect service users from abuse?<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/amazonnewsmedia.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-17-at-12.53.28-pm-300x38.png\")
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<\/a><\/p>\nCrisis? What Crisis?<\/h4>\n
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<\/a>Lisa Dando said in the Guardian<\/a> that \u201cPublic rhetoric on mental health is not being reflected on the frontline in women\u2019s services<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\nThe Relatable State<\/h4>\n
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<\/a>Richard Byng is particularly intrigued by the boundaries between doctor and patient. In 2017, he started making YouTube videos for the Economic and Social Research Council, under the banner of the Destress Project. He claims to want to explore the interface between \u201can increasing emphasis on guidelines, where we\u2019re supposed to do things in the way we\u2019re supposed to do them<\/strong>, and yet also in the context of individuals who live lives when they have such complicated, difficult lives to live in\u201d<\/em>. (bold added \u2013 Ed)<\/p>\nCosy Chats?<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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Big Research Grants<\/h4>\n