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The white golf shoes sit on a shelf in my bedroom closet, in a plastic emergency room bag labelled “Personal Belongings”. They’ve resided there for 14 years, since a muggy June day when my 65-year-old dad finished 18 holes of golf. As his friends ent...

A mental health charity is to hold its first community walk and fun day. The Bermuda Mental Health Foundation Steps to Mental Wellness Walk and Community Fun Day was designed to promote good psychiatric health and break down the stigma attached to pe...

We are now in the gorgeous Italian part of Switzerland, Ticino. What do I like to do here the most? Walk in the woods for hours. This area is a paradise for hiking. Hundreds of kilometres of trails with breathtaking views of shimmering lakes and dis...

Community homes for mental health treatment in Bermuda are to be funded by the Government, the Premier pledged. David Burt said that funding for the homes would come in the “very near future”. The statement drew applause from the audience at the se...

Heart palpitations. Dizziness. Nausea. Numbness. Trouble breathing. Chest pains. An all-encompassing feeling of dread. Heart attack? No, for many people these are the unpleasant symptoms of something much more mundane, a panic attack. They often seem...

A homeless man charged with assaulting a woman and abusive behaviour has been remanded in custody to have his fitness to plead examined for a second time. Junior Ming, known as “Scientist”, admitted the charges last week, but changed his plea to not ...

A man with mental health and drug problems who headbutted a police officer was shown leniency by a magistrate this week. Magistrate Maxanne Anderson sentenced Eric Richardson to two years probation on Wednesday. She said: “I don’t want anyone to thin...

Last week we talked about how to reset when your nutrition goes completely off the rails. So, how have the last seven days gone for you? Did you ace it? Or end up face down in a pint of ice cream? Maybe it was a mix of the two. Some successes with a...

The island’s top magistrate said yesterday it was “mind-boggling” that he had nowhere other than prison to send a man with mental health and drug problems who admitted punching his mother. Senior magistrate Juan Wolffe added that it was “astounding”...

Christians aren’t immune to depression and suicide. Despite that, mental illness is not something the church usually talks about. “Christians go through many battles and some of these can be the struggle with mental health issues/illness,” said Isis ...

Almost $230,000 a year is being shelled out to treat a violent child sex offender in Britain, The Royal Gazette can reveal. An agreement reached between the Bermuda Hospitals Board and St Andrew’s Healthcare in England to provide mental health servic...

Legislation to address “major gaps” in Bermuda’s mental health system was tabled in the House of Assembly on Friday. Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, said the Mental Health Amendment Bill outlined requirements for determining mental capacity, incl...