The article highlights the critical relationship between mental illness and socioeconomic status, emphasizing that mental health issues are exacerbated in poverty-stricken areas. A mental health nurse shares their perspective on the toll of financial strain on both practitioners and patients. Despite efforts to provide hope and support, a lack of political will to address these inequalities discourages mental health professionals. The discourse around overdiagnosis is critiqued for failing to recognize the complexities of managing mental health in the workforce, suggesting that the focus should be on providing support for those with chronic conditions.
Successive governments refuse to acknowledge that mental illness overwhelmingly affects people from a lower socioeconomic class.
Mental health nurses are tasked with being guardians of hope, but when we see the ongoing assault on the most vulnerable, and billionaires ruling the world, it can be difficult to hold on to hope of our own.
When payday arrives each month, it is a time of anxiety, low mood and stress, because I know that I will have to juggle my budget once again.
The debate about overdiagnosing people misses the point when it comes to deciding whether people are fit to work or not.
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