100 Voices: Joe Caslin - on What More We Can All Do to Prevent the Stigma #NowWereTalking

I work as a teacher in Tullamore. If I have a student who has harmed themselves, there's no access to 24-hour psychiatric care. You're taken to an A&E department, and you're treated for your physical wounds. But you're left on an endless waiting list for anything else that might be going on with you. There's no dual diagnosis.

So, the truth is that there is an endless list of things that the government could activate. But the reality is that we all have a responsibility in relation to the stigma. If we're using language about mental health that isn't appropriate, we can check ourselves about that. There is so much that we, as individuals, can be doing for our friends and family.

100 Voices was published in the Hot Press Mental Health Special in conjunction with Lyons Tea and Pieta House as part of the Now We're Talking Campaign. For more please visit hotpress.com/now-were-talking/