{"id":256037,"date":"2025-12-29T11:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T11:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/256037\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T11:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T11:48:11","slug":"are-people-afraid-to-discuss-mental-health-on-the-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/256037\/","title":{"rendered":"Are people afraid to discuss mental health on the Island?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Sunday, 28 December 2025 13:09\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/257725-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Picture credit: Pixabay<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Mental Health professionals appeared on latest Manx Health Matters Podcast\n        <\/p>\n<p>Are people on the Isle of Man afraid of speaking about mental health?<\/p>\n<p>A mental health professional believes the Island does have a problem when it comes to being open about mental health.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manxradio.com\/podcasts\/manx-health-matters\/episode\/mental-welbeing\/\" title=\"https:\/\/www.manxradio.com\/podcasts\/manx-health-matters\/episode\/mental-welbeing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manx Health Matters Podcast<\/a>, Shirley Cain from Ed Space says more could be done:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>Public Health Manager, Lisa Saunders agreed and asked more people to be understanding:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>However, Public Health Officer Lisa Clarke argued that public services are encouraging more people to speak up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lisa says there are more discussions with the third sector:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>Ed Space has been running since January 2025, with over 800 people seeking help in both the Douglas and Ramsey clubs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dan Dooley from the charity explains how they encourage people to open up:\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday, 28 December 2025 13:09 Picture credit: Pixabay Mental Health professionals appeared on latest Manx Health Matters Podcast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[18,117,20161,135,19,17,20158,20159,20160,167,502,337,5,20162],"class_list":{"0":"post-256037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-fun","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-isle-of-man","15":"tag-manx","16":"tag-manx-news","17":"tag-mental-health","18":"tag-mentalhealth","19":"tag-music","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-presenters"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115802702178059604","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}