To begin Radio 2's Open Mind campaign, Brian Hayes asks whether people's attitude to mental illness needs to change.
With depression and stress increasingly common, what can be done to improve the population's mental health? Why is the level of suicide among men so high? And has the closure of many long-stay hospitals under Care in the Community been a success, or does the treatment of conditions like schizophrenia and dementia need to be re-examined? Listeners can call with their views from
6pm on [number removed] (calls charged at local rates). Producers Anne Freeman and Mark Hill
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