Surely, on this miserable trajectory, serious illness is next?
Anne-Marie Irwin – a specialist court of protection solicitor from the law firm Irwin Mitchell, who had represented the pensioner's interests during litigation – said Sykes had been a leading dementia campaigner who now had the illness and was miserable in a care home.
In 1908, mental health care in the United States was changed forever when Clifford Beers disclosed his personal history of mental illness and the miserable state of care in his autobiography [ 6], sparking a movement leading to comprehensive mental health reform.
In HIV/AIDS, stigma may be linked to the fact that AIDS is a fatal and painful illness that ends in a miserable and undignified death[ 27, 28], or to behaviours such as sexual promiscuity believed to lead to HIV/AIDS.
Since the publication of World Health Report 2001, WHO has published a number of reports highlighting the miserable social status of those who suffer mental illness, but WHO clearly lacks the strategy to translate these reports into action.
Mental illness is not a condemnation to stay miserable behind closed doors forever in many cases you can still live a happy and meaningful life.
The vaccines offer new ways to fight incurable illnesses that can kill or make life miserable.
Indeed, I maintain that high levels of mental illness are essential to Selfish Capitalism, because needy, miserable people make greedy consumers and can be more easily suckered into perfectionist, competitive workaholism.
It is as if people need you to look, sound and act miserable to take you seriously as someone with a chronic illness.
It could also be induced by living in miserable conditions, such as extreme poverty, being physically ill for a long time, by family problems such as divorce or too many responsibilities: 'When you lose someone you loved very much, or when you lost a lot of money or when your house is burnt, this can cause illness.
