Matt Haig: ‘There is no more shame in mental illness than having tonsilitis’

I am having a real problem with finding a point at which to stop copying the article by Matt Haig in the Guardian and asking you to continue reading. Every point that he makes seems to me to be valid.


‘The brain is the body. Mental health is physical health.’ Photograph: Alamy

The problem we have with talking about mental health is that we still don’t think of it as an equal priority with physical health. This is wrong not simply because it leads to less money being spent on mental health service provision by governments, but also because it fails to see that the whole idea of mental health shouldn’t be an isolated one.

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