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Roxanne Kerr with Communications and Events Officer Lindy Patterson. A new mental health and wellbeing festival will go ahead in Perth and Kinross this year amid a “mental health crisis” brought on by the pandemic. Set up last year, local charity Trauma Healing Together has organised the festival following a £9,100 grant from The National Lottery Community Fund. It will go ahead from August 9 to 15. The charity says the pandemic has had a “devastating” effect on people’s mental wellb...

Perth and Kinross wellbeing and crisis charities mark Mental Health Awareness Week 2021 The PA caught up with groups in the region that have been helping those struggling over the past 14 months From left, Sharon Thomas of The Lighthouse for Perth, Roxanne Kerr of Trauma Healing Together and Alex McClintock of Andys Man Club Perth Get the latest Scottish parenting news sent straight to your inbox each week with our newsletter.Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe ...

Calls for change as study reveals one-in-five Taysiders use mental heath prescriptions Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Around one-in-five people in Tayside are prescribed medication for mental health issues, a new study has found. The findings, which are part of a blueprint aimed at building confidence in the area’s psychiatric services, has triggered calls for a new approach to anti-depressants. NHS Taysid...