1. Who cares about mental illness?
Dr Helen Sharrard, Consultant Psychiatrist
Dr Kate Franklin, Trainee Psychiatrist

2. What is mental illness?
A mental illness is a condition that impacts a person's thinking, feeling or mood and may affect his or her ability to relate to others and function on a daily basis

3. What is a psychiatrist? A doctor
Works together with patients and a large multidisciplinary team
Concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental health conditions
So…. What is normal?

4. Many other options…..
Social Worker - Improves housing situation, advice on debts
Psychologist – Tests IQ, treats with talking therapies
Psychiatric nurse – gives medications, supports, monitors mental state
Occupational therapist – measures function, adapts environment
And others: speech and language therapists, physiotherapists, managers, admin staff

5. So…. What is normal?
We all experience a wide range of emotions….. Can you recognise what these are?

6. Anger Fear Disgust
Surprise Happiness Sadness

7. What is normal? Some things are categorically abnormal:
Seeing things which turn out not to be there
Hearing voices
Believing that aliens are controlling you
Most psychiatric symptoms are extensions of normal emotions and behaviour

8. Symptoms
e.g. emotions
Time

9. Symptoms
e.g. emotions
Severity
Increased
Baseline
Time

10. How common is mental illness? No health without mental health (2011)
Mental ill health represents up to 23% of the total burden of ill health in the UK – the largest single cause of disability

11. No health without mental health HM Government 2011
During their lifetime:
At least one in four people will experience a mental health problem
Almost half of all adults will experience at least one episode of depression

12. How common is mental illness?
One in ten new mothers experiences postnatal depression
Self-harming in young people is not uncommon (10–13% of 15– 16-year-olds have self-harmed)

14. Stephen Fry – Bipolar Affective Disorder

16. Franki Sandford
Anxiety and Depression
Katie Price
Postnatal Depression

18. Sheldon Cooper –
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Robin Williams –
Suffered with depression
and Lewy Body Dementia

19. Mental health in the media

20. Categories of mental disorder

21. CHANGING MINDS VIDEO

22. Thank you for listening
Any questions?