I've had too much experience of coping with mental illness. We are better at acknowledging it than we once were. So there's no need to be curmudgeonly. But the advances are still pitiful, and at the level of government, the NHS and our own relations with each other much needs to be done,

I'm running the London Landmarks half marathon on 25 March. Don't panic. In the probable event of me being stretchered off, your donation will still go to the great and good people at Mind.

And now for the technical bit.

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