What former rock band member established himself as a political and mental health activist, Mary's Danish or Matthew Good?
Matthew Frederick Robert Good
Title: Mental Health Act 2001
Passage: The Mental Health Act 2001 is an Act of the Irish Parliament, the Oireachtas, which sets out the legal procedures for admissions and treatment in approved centres.  It aims to protect the rights of everyone using the mental health services.  It aims to ensure the patient's best interest is the most important aspect of mental health.  The Act says that the patient has the right to receive good quality mental health care, and mental health services should be properly run and regulated.  Under the act, mental health workers are obliged to ensure the patient is treated in a way that respects their rights.  The Mental Health Act 2001 was enacted by the Oireachtas of Ireland on 8 July 2001.  Most of the important provisions came into force on 1 November 2006.  Some less important sections came into force in 2002.
Title: Forensic Network
Passage: The Forensic Network (the shortened name of the Forensic Mental Health Services Managed Care Network) is one of Scotland's Managed Clinical Networks and it was established in Scotland in September 2003 by Scottish Government, in conjunction with "The Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003", and following a review of the State Hospital's Board for Scotland, 'The Right Place - The Right Time'.  The review stated that a Forensic Mental Health Services Network Managed Care Network should be established to address fragmentation across the Forensic Mental Health Estate, to overview the processes for determining the most effective care for mentally disordered offenders, consider wider issues surrounding patient pathways, and align strategic planning across Scotland (;).  Under the auspices of the Scottish National Health Service, the Network is multi-agency, multi-disciplinary and multi-regional, linked with Scottish Prison Service, Social Work Services, and Police, Criminal Justice agencies, the Scottish Government and Carers, amongst others.  The Scottish Ministers invited Andreana Adamson, Chief Executive of the State Hospital, to lead on its development:
Title: HowNutsAreTheDutch
Passage: "How Nuts Are The Dutch" is an online research platform that became established on 13 December 2013 in the Netherlands.  HowNutsAreTheDutch has been designed by researchers from the University of Groningen to support self-measurement of mental health for the entire population of The Netherlands.  The project shows how crowdsourcing can be used for studying mental health in the general population.  HowNutsAreTheDutch ( in Dutch) provides automatic personalized feedback on filled-out questionnaires to provide participants with more basic insight in their mental health, including a comparison with the scores of other participants.  HowNutsAreTheDutch is meant to reduce mental health stigma and to promote a discrete categorization of mental health, by showing that all people have both personal strengths and weaknesses, and that most psychological characteristics are distributed continuously in the population.  A background goal is to develop and evaluate personalized interventions to improve mood-related problems and social-emotional functioning.  In the first year 13000 inhabitants of the Netherlands and Belgium participated.
Title: Jerilyn Ross
Passage: Jerilyn Ross (December 20, 1946 in the Bronx, New York–January 7, 2010 at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C.) was an American psychotherapist, phobia expert, and mental health activist. " The New York Times"' Benedict Carey described her as "one of the country’s most visible and effective advocates for those with mental health problems."
Title: Pete Shaughnessy
Passage: Peter Anthony "Pete" Shaughnessy (16 September 1962 – 15 December 2002) was an English mental health activist and one of the founders of Mad Pride, a group of mental health activists who reclaimed terms such as 'mad' and 'nutter' from misuse, and campaigned for the rights of the mentally ill.
Title: Mary's Danish
Passage: Mary's Danish was an alternative rock band that was formed in Los Angeles, California in the late 1980s which released four albums, with the last in 1992.  Mary's Danish blended a musical mixture of rock, funk, country and soul elements.
Title: Matthew Good
Passage: Matthew Frederick Robert Good (born June 29, 1971) is a Canadian rock musician.  He was the lead singer and songwriter for the Matthew Good Band, one of Canada's most successful alternative rock bands in the 1990s, before dissolving the band in 2002.  In the years since the Matthew Good Band's disbanding, Good has pursued a solo career and established himself as a political and mental health activist.
Title: Mental health in the Australian Football League
Passage: Mental health refers to a person's mental state, well-being, and ability to cope with the daily stresses of life.  Good mental health also means that one has the ability to be mentally resilient, have a good life balance, having an absence of mental disorders and the ability to enjoy life.  Elite athletes such as those competing in the Australian Football League(AFL), are at higher risk of developing a mental health disorders such as depression, anxiety, social anxiety, panic attacks and eating disorders.  16–34 years olds are also in the high risk category, which is the average age of a football player and extends to those who are being drafted, this puts AFL players in both high risk categories.  A study conducted by Helen Christensen and Alison Parsons showed that 1 in 5 elite athletes suffered depressive symptoms.  Playing elite sports is a great challenge emotionally, mentally as well as physically, some players can cope with all of these pressures while others cannot handle it and therefore suffer from a lack of mental health.
Title: Global mental health
Passage: Global mental health is the international perspective on different aspects of mental health.  It is 'the area of study, research and practice that places a priority on improving mental health and achieving equity in mental health for all people worldwide'.  Taking into account cultural differences and country-specific conditions, it deals with the epidemiology of mental disorders in different countries, their treatment options, mental health education, political and financial aspects, the structure of mental health care systems, human resources in mental health, and human rights issues among others.
Title: Bhargavi Davar
Passage: Bhargavi Davar is a noted mental health activist in India.  She is the managing trustee of The Bapu Trust, an organisation that was founded in 1999 dedicated to the research and activism of mental health issues.  She has written numerous articles in Medical Journals.
Mary's Danish Matthew Good