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Wednesday 5 March 2025
All of Sir Ronald's commentaries up to May 1, 2025 can be read in the "Commentaries" section of this website. The most recent one is entitled, "A silent emergency: Mental health demands our voice, our will, our action" More than 160 million people in the Americas – from Canada to Argentina with the Caribbean in between – live with a mental disorder. In 2021 alone, over 652,000 souls were lost to mental illness, substance abuse, Alzheimer’s disease, and suicide. Two of our nations rank among the ten with the highest suicide rates in the world. Each year, over 100,000 people die by suicide. Yet only one in five receives treatment.
But this is not just a health crisis. It is a crisis of conscience and commitment. It affects children, teenagers, and adults—crippling productivity, corroding public trust, and fracturing families. The stigma surrounding mental health acts like a shroud, keeping this problem out of sight and out of political reach. Silence is no longer an option.