Commonwealth Games, Personality Disorders

The Commonwealth Games in Birmingham is underway and for the first time in a major multi-sport event, more medals will be awarded to women than men, with the medal programme confirming a total of 136 events for women compared to 134 for men. Jessica speaks to the the BBC Sports presenter, Clare Balding as well as the first ever female Chef de Mission for Team Scotland, who for the first time have more women competing in their team than men. The impact of body image on mental and physical health is "wide-reaching according to a new wide ranging report out today by the Health and Social Care Committee which calls for e.g. for the Government to introduce a law so "commercial images" which feature bodies which have been doctored in any way - including changing body proportions or skin tone - are legally required to carry a logo to let viewers know they have been digitally altered. And the Government tospeed up the introduction of a promised licensing regime for non-surgical cosmetic procedures to prevent vulnerable people being exploited.. Jessica hears from Jeremy Hunt is Chair of the Committee, and Dawn Steele, a patient trustee to the board of the Joint Council For Cosmetic Practitioners. Penelope Campling is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist. Over the course of her 40-year career she has seen many changes in the way we treat serious mental illness. She spent twenty years running the NHS personality disorder unit in Leicester. She has now retired from the NHS, still practising as a psychotherapist and has just published her second book, Don’t Turn Away: Stories of Troubled Minds in Fractured Times. Presenter: Jessica Creighton Producer: Dianne McGregor