{"id":373640,"date":"2025-12-28T19:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T19:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/373640\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T19:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T19:15:09","slug":"are-people-afraid-to-discuss-mental-health-on-the-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/373640\/","title":{"rendered":"Are people afraid to discuss mental health on the Island?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Sunday, 28 December 2025 13:09\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/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\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday, 28 December 2025 13:09 Picture credit: Pixabay Mental Health professionals appeared on latest Manx Health Matters Podcast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,75,1111,84,3053,3054,3055,393,394,341,44,3056],"class_list":["post-373640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-fun","tag-health","tag-isle-of-man","tag-manx","tag-manx-news","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-music","tag-news","tag-presenters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}