10 years of Money and Mental Health

An update from Helen Undy OBE - Chief Executive of Money and Mental Health.

Marking a full decade since we were founded, we've put together a short film summarising who we are, what we do, how we put lived experience at the heart of our work and our impact so far. We're particularly grateful to the members of our Research Community - Suzanne, Rob and Catherine - for giving up their time to appear in this film. If you're interested, please watch below. And please do feel free to share with friends or colleagues who might be interested in learning more about our work.

Sometimes the most basic of formulations speaks volumes and distances ...


individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES             

humanistic ------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL   

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group

Mental health
	Money

Disability and the rise of 'mental health', or something else?

individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group

mental DISABILITY	physical DISABILITY
social DISABILITY	The Times 28 March 2025, p.1. POLITICAL disability^

Chris Smyth, One in four Britons claim they have a disability, The Times, 28 March 2025, p.1.

https://www.thetimes.com/profile/chris-smyth

See also - (not reliable however):

Google Ngrams: mental illness, mental health, well being, mindfulness, 1800-2022

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=mental+illness,+mental+health,+well+being,+mindfulness&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3

^The Government are deploying AI to figure out:

• how to raise an army, air force, navy, space and cyber force?
• how to fight a war?
• how to sustain a workforce, to support an ageing population.

An improbable response:

Robots, drones, tech-enhanced machines with AI.