'Every one of us is only a pay packet away from being left destitute..'
The cost of living crisis is causing a mental health crisis worse than that of the pandemic, Northern Ireland's Mental Health Champion has warned.
"I think the issue is we get a short term reaction, a payment, when what we actually need is a systemic change to reduce inequality in Northern Ireland. We need political leadership, we need an anti-poverty strategy that actually works. "They're destitute, they can't feed their families, they feel like failures - that's a very toxic combination that can lead people to suicidal crisis. The work we're seeing here [at Storehouse] is suicide prevention work as well as mental health work."
"We have the food shop that provides choice and dignity for people, and the same with our clothes shop, it's meant to look like a proper clothes shop. Communites and relationships are the things that build resilience. She said: "There are people who are actually starving now in 2022 in Northern Ireland, and that's horrendous. There's a lot of people suffering now, and psychiatrists are warning of a mental health crisis that's going to be bigger than what's been caused by the pandemic."
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