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10/10/2007
Mental Illness On Local Agenda
As many as in five people here show are showing signs of mental health problems.
And as the Health Promotion Agency Northern Ireland launched a campaign to raise awareness of the psychological problems people face here as part of World Mental Health Day, it has emerged that former Celtic captain Neil Lennon been battling depression for years.
The local midfielder is still on medication but has lent now support to new mental health research.
"You just never know when it will reoccur again. It is just maintaining that quality of life.
"There is no real time pattern for it. I have gone a couple of years without it and it comes at various times in the year. At the minute everything is going okay, touch wood."
The former Northern Ireland international, who joined English Premier side Nottingham Forest this year, first told how he suffered from bouts of depression in his autobiography last year.
"It was an opportunity. I sent out a message that it was all right to have it and don’t be ashamed about it to come forward. Anyone in any walk of life can have it."
(BMcC)
And as the Health Promotion Agency Northern Ireland launched a campaign to raise awareness of the psychological problems people face here as part of World Mental Health Day, it has emerged that former Celtic captain Neil Lennon been battling depression for years.
The local midfielder is still on medication but has lent now support to new mental health research.
"You just never know when it will reoccur again. It is just maintaining that quality of life.
"There is no real time pattern for it. I have gone a couple of years without it and it comes at various times in the year. At the minute everything is going okay, touch wood."
The former Northern Ireland international, who joined English Premier side Nottingham Forest this year, first told how he suffered from bouts of depression in his autobiography last year.
"It was an opportunity. I sent out a message that it was all right to have it and don’t be ashamed about it to come forward. Anyone in any walk of life can have it."
(BMcC)
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