Urgent plea for safe and secure psychiatric facility in Caithness By Alan Hendry
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Updated: 09:45, 26 February 2021
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Steven Szyfelbain on the anchor near Wick harbour this week. An anchor features in the logo of No More Lost Souls. Picture: Alan Hendry
An urgent plea has gone out for a safe and secure psychiatric facility to be created in Caithness to cope with the area s growing mental health crisis.
Campaign group No More Lost Souls maintains that mental health is a bigger problem in the county than Covid-19, based on the number of suicides. Its members are seeking to reduce the stigma surrounding the subject.
For us, the bigger crisis in Caithness has been suicide, not Covid-19 By Alan Hendry Published: 09:25, 26 February 2021
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Steven Szyfelbain beside the anchor at Wick harbour. Picture: Alan Hendry
Suicide is a bigger crisis in Caithness than Covid-19, according to Steven Szyfelbain. It s a stark assertion, but he insists the figures back it up. And his experiences since forming the campaign group No More Lost Souls have reinforced his belief that mental health provision in the area is inadequate.