Living Well with Bipolar | JustMentalTalk Podcast
Living well with bipolar is not a phrase most people associate with the condition. For too many, a bipolar diagnosis still lands with the weight of a life sentence. This week on JustMentalTalk, we sat down with two women who are working to change that story, Leah Charles-King, Bipolar UK Ambassador and A Place in […]
October Mental Health Awareness: 4 Essential Moments
October mental health awareness this year brings together four important moments: ADHD Awareness Month, Menopause Awareness Month, Domestic Abuse Awareness Month and World Mental Health Day on Saturday 10 October. Each one touches people of every age, gender and background, and each one is a chance to talk more openly about how we are really […]
PTSD vs CPTSD: What Trauma Actually Does to You
PTSD vs CPTSD is a distinction that almost never gets explained outside a clinical room, and in Northern Ireland, where trauma runs deeper than most people realise, that gap in public understanding matters. To unpack it properly, JustMentalTalk sat down with Dr JP Corrigan, Consultant Clinical Psychologist with Belfast Health and Social Care Trust and […]
Suicide Prevention Funding: 1 Report Stormont Can’t Ignore
Suicide prevention funding: why a new Stormont report says it can’t be health’s job alone Suicide prevention funding in Northern Ireland has to be shared across government, not left to the health system alone, that is the central message of a report launched at Stormont this week. On Tuesday 23 September 2026, the All-Party Group […]
National Suicide Memorial Day 2026 | Doctors in Distress UK
National Suicide Memorial Day 2026: Why Northern Ireland’s Doctors and Nurses Are Still Waiting for Help Today, Thursday 17 September 2026, is National Suicide Memorial Day for Health and Care Workers, a day set up by NHS Practitioner Health and Doctors in Distress to remember the health and care professionals lost to suicide, and to […]
World Suicide Prevention Day: 290 Reasons NI Must Act Now
World Suicide Prevention Day falls on Thursday 10 September this year, and Northern Ireland arrives at it carrying a number that should stop every one of us in our tracks: 290. ▶ START THE CONVERSATION. ★ LIGHT A CANDLE TONIGHT AT 8PM, a sign to remember all those who have taken their lives by suicide. That […]
Children’s Mental Health Crisis: NI’s Missing A&E Data
Children’s Mental Health Crisis: What Northern Ireland’s Own A&E Data Shows, and Doesn’t By JustMental | Friday 4 September 2026 A children’s mental health crisis is playing out in emergency departments across England, and Northern Ireland’s own partial data suggests it isn’t confined to one side of the Irish Sea. The difference
Non-Recent Child Sexual Abuse: RCPsych Apologises, Now What?
This week, the Royal College of Psychiatrists apologised, directly and publicly, to adult survivors of non-recent child sexual abuse, for decades of NHS mental health care that too often did more harm than good. Professional bodies rarely do this. In a new position statement, PS04/26, published on 26 August, the College has acknowledged that mental […]
Northern Ireland Mental Health Waiting Times: The Department of Health Just Told Us It Isn’t Publishing Them, and Then Missed Its Own Promise to Start
Why we filed the FOI On Tuesday 30 June 2026, JustMental launched the 107 a Day campaign, calling for the establishment of a 24/7 Mental Health Crisis Response Team in each of Northern Ireland’s five Health and Social Care Trust areas. The campaign was built around figures placed on the public record by Assistant Chief […]