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The parents of a Bermudian teenager who took her own life at a US treatment centre have launched a lawsuit against the facility over her death. Kirsta Simons, 17, had been sent to West Ridge Academy in Utah by the Family Court under the care of the D...

Mental health benefits and services in Bermuda are not on an equal footing as those dealing with physical health, the Ministry of Health has admitted. It was responding after Tania Stafford, a former service user at the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Instit...

A team of medics has been formed to support those with intellectual disabilities and their families at home. The Community Intellectual Disabilities Team consists of nurses and therapists who work together to meet the needs of the clients and their f...

Stroke patients will be routinely screened for depression, the Bermuda Hospitals Board has announced. Various hospital departments and disciplines are involved in the new process at the Primary Stroke Centre including allied health professionals (oc...

Naomi Osaka, winner of four grand-slam tennis tournaments, has declared her independence and in doing so is exhibiting interdependence – a refined empathy for others. Osaka took a stand to preserve healthy boundaries when she declared that for the 2...

CG Insurance and Benedict Associates are collaborating on a series of free webinars to help parents navigate the stresses of the pandemic. According to CG Insurance, the pandemic is considered to be a mental health crisis by many observers and stati...

An advocate for the arts and a “driving force” in the founding of the Bermuda Mental Health Foundation has died aged 85. Stanley Chetkowski also helped launch the Bermuda Film Festival in 1997, and served as treasurer of the Bermuda Festival of the P...

The leader of a charity for struggling families yesterday stressed the need to have reliable mental health resources as the island entered a full year handling the coronavirus pandemic. Sandy De Silva, the executive director of The Family Centre, sai...

As I write this, we are in yet another wave of outbreak, with the numbers of those with Covid diagnoses once again rising, and a raft of restrictions and closures on the horizon. We often say that grief comes in waves; symbolising that healing and r...

A charity helping families has experienced a 50 per cent increase in calls from people who “can no longer suffer in silence”. Sandy De Silva, the Family Centre’s executive director, echoed a recent statement by Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-Gene...

When Tania Stafford went for treatment at the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute she felt she had been transported to a 1950s-style asylum. It was old with tatty furnishings, decades old magazines were in the reception area and a faded poster of a tall ...

A man who admitted the theft of a bottle of wine was yesterday sent to Mental Health Court. Jordayo Johnston, 29, pleaded guilty to the offence in Magistrates’ Court. The court heard that on October 25 last year, Johnston was seen acting in a suspici...