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Time for change on mental health
• ALL around me I see advertisements for a Time to Change, World Mental Health Day celebration in Regent’s Park on Saturday October 10.
It seems like a very good idea to challenge the stigma and discrimination around problems which one in four of us will suffer from. Isn’t it perverse, therefore, that at the same time as Camden Council is promoting this event that it is closing down the one organisation within Camden, CMHC, which is actually trying to achieve some change in attitudes?
Is this a case of double standards or more simply one branch of the council being unaware of the policy of another?
Anwar Patel
Lamble Street, NW5
Double tragedy
• I READ Noel Walker’s letter with great concern (Helping others has given me a purpose, September 24).
It will really be a tragedy if this service that is provided to the local mental health units by the patients’ council that Noel is a part of has to go; a two-pronged tragedy, for patients and for Noel.
Again we see a Camden Council which seems not to care about preserving community.
All it wants to do is cut costs. The refusal to further fund Camden Mental Health Consortium reflects its refusal to fund other small community groups.
Yet at the same time, the local mental health champion, Councillor Nick Russell, is silent on this important issue – this very sad loss of a service which people need and value.
Danny Bloom
Grafton Road, NW5
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