Did their low self-esteem lead them into difficult relationships because they were unable to stand up for themselves, or did the constant nagging sap their confidence? When I worked in a drug rehabilitation clinic in a poor part of South London, I tried to set up a cooking workshop for those with mental health problems. Any attempt to improve mental health through nutrition must also involve local councils, which should be incentivising healthy eating by, for example, reducing business rates for shops selling fresh food. This led to an epidemic of mental health problems that still hasn’t gone away. My gran, who’d never had mental health problems, became suicidal at 82 due to the pain in her hip as she waited for an operation.

Source: Daily Mail July 03, 2020 22:00 UTC