Person: Agnes Higgins

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Mental health coping aid to be rolled out nationwide

A programme that has been hugely successful in helping people learn about their mental illness and how to cope with it is being rolled out nationally.

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Women fear losing children if they raise mental health concerns

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Women not seeking mental health care for fear kids will be taken away, seminar hears

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Doctors risk ‘professional suicide’ with drug alerts

Mental health nurses have vital role

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Mothers with mental illness ‘afraid to talk’

‘Silence stigmatises’ mothers with mental health problems

THERE is a “conspiracy of silence” among healthcare practitioners and women in general when it comes to mothers who have a mental health problem.

Mon, 17 Jan, 2011

Mental heath issue - Conspiracy of silence

MENTAL health problems are part of the hidden Ireland and nowhere is the stigma more likely to be swept under the carpet than when a mother has to cope with this problem in isolation, concealing her dark secret from friends and neighbours.

Mon, 17 Jan, 2011

Gamblers chase Paddy for disputed hurling bet

CORK may have qualified for another All-Ireland final, but one hurling fan on Leeside wasn’t celebrating.

Tue, 19 Aug, 2003