{"id":139635,"date":"2025-11-14T15:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T15:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/139635\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T15:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T15:15:07","slug":"mental-health-study-at-cardiff-university-could-pave-the-way-for-new-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/139635\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental health study at Cardiff University could pave the way for new treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Carina said she was now an &#8220;expert by experience&#8221; and works with a number of universities and organisations. She has also taken part in the new research at Cardiff University.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It would be amazing in a few years if people with psychotic disorders have the same life expectancy as the general population,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Carina said she wanted more understanding, less stigma and more compassion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If an older person presents at a train station in distress, people are kind and think they&#8217;re someone with dementia,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That wouldn&#8217;t happen if the person was psychotic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Alun Thomas, chief executive of the mental health and addiction charity Adferiad, said that sensationalist reporting of serious mental illnesses created stigma and fear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The public then sees serious mental illnesses as a danger, rather than the danger being we don&#8217;t respond to the symptoms early enough,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carina said she was now an &#8220;expert by experience&#8221; and works with a number of universities and organisations.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-139635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}