{"id":479519,"date":"2025-12-30T07:18:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T07:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/479519\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T07:18:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T07:18:20","slug":"are-people-afraid-to-discuss-mental-health-on-the-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/479519\/","title":{"rendered":"Are people afraid to discuss mental health on the Island?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/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\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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<p>                    More from Isle of Man News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picture credit: Pixabay Mental Health professionals appeared on latest Manx Health Matters Podcast Are people on the Isle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":479520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[171,11660,210,50494,50495,50496,517,975,50,50497,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-479519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-fun","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-isle-of-man","12":"tag-manx","13":"tag-manx-news","14":"tag-mental-health","15":"tag-music","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-presenters","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115807302821749279","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}