The Mental Health Crisis

Here in the UK, this week has been officially designated as ‘Mental Health Awareness Week’. And if that’s news to you, you’re not alone, because domestic and global events seem to be unfolding at an ever faster pace, with which it’s increasingly difficult to keep up. That, and the unrelenting pressure, especially on young people, to manage their hectic lives, strained finances, and societal expectations, has led inevitably to a burgeoning mental health crisis across the developed world (see link [Guardian, Mar’25]. So, at this month’s meeting, we’ll explore the problem, and ask what needs to be done to save this so-called ‘lost generation’ from lives of misery and despair.

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