A mental health check-up should be as normal as a visit to the GP: Lydia Abela

A mental health check-up should be as normal as a visit to the GP: Lydia Abela

Having a mental health check-up should be as normal as going for a visit to your doctor, Lydia Abela told a conference on mental health. But to change our culture, we needed to start with children, she added."I want to see a country that normalises mental health check-ups and strengthens the culture of prevention," said...

Lydia Abela Says Mental Health Check-Ups Should Be Normalised

Lydia Abela, the wife of Prime Minister Robert Abela, said that she wants Malta to normalise the concept of mental health check-ups. “Having a mental health check-up should be as normal as going for a visit to your doctor. To change a culture, we must start with children,” Abela said during a national conference on quality of life and mental health at Fort St Elmo. She went on to warn that social media addiction has become a real issue that must…