Sane is celebrating its 25th anniversary this month and, to mark the occasion, it will be continuing the fight to beat the taboos surrounding mental illness by producing larger-than-lifesize sculptures of dogs that its founder and chief executive, Marjorie Wallace, hopes will be sponsored by companies, schools and individuals and put in prominent positions up and down the country.
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I became a popstar to help find a cure for MS
JLS singer Oritse Williams: ‘I became a popstar to help find a cure for MS to save my mother’
Last updated at 2:39 AM on 24th July 2011
Most young men trying to carve out a career in the music industry have fame and the wealth that accompanies it as an incentive to push them to the top of the charts.
But for Oritse Williams, founding member of platinum-selling boyband JLS, the motivation was his mother’s battle with the incurable illness multiple sclerosis (MS).
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Its lights, camera, action for Lifeline staff
Published by lpriest for Progress Housing Group in Housing and also in Communities, Health
Monday 25th July 2011 – 9:26am
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Lights, camera, action! This week Lifeline staff became TV stars as a film crew rolled into town to shoot a film about the Lifeline emergency response service.
Staff from the Lifeline team starred alongside professional actors, highlighting how the 24/7 Lifeline service works and how it can help people live safely and independently in their own homes.
The Lifeline service is an alarm unit and personal pendant, which is linked through the individual’s telephone line to a 24/7 control centre. When an alarm is triggered it instantly connects the individual to an experienced control centre operator, who will take the most appropriate action to help, which could be to contact the emergency services, a family member or neighbour or to send a mobile warden to assist.
The shadow of the black dog touches us all, but it is possible to master mental illness
Celebrities back ‘black dog’ campaign to defeat depression
Mental health charity SANE plans sculptures across the country to raise awareness of ‘forgotten illness’
Well-known impressionist Rory Bremner suffers from depression
First coined by the Roman poet Horace and later adopted by Winston Churchill to describe his own depression, the metaphor of the “black dog” has been used for centuries. Now a mental health charity has reclaimed the expression and wants to bring it to a plinth near you.
