I do have a lot of sympathy for Simon Wessely's point that mental health gets a very rough deal from the NHS.
Mental health gets a terrible deal. But if Wessley were genuinely concerned for people with mental health conditions there is plently that he could tackle.
The situation where there is a desperate shortage of beds for people in crisis, the horrible state of inpatient wards, the closure of local services, the farce that is IAPT, the associated farce of inappropriate CBT, failure to keep up with 21st century best practice, massive waiting lists, terrible community support, the condescending attitude of practitioners like himself who infest the mental health profession ... and on and on.
People who are pressing for reform, the real on the ground activists and the handful of frontline staff who can be bothered, know all this and see the real problems. He sits far away doing interviews, handing out soundbites about "stigma" and "discrimination" and in reality helping no-one but himself and his cronies. IOW, typical establishment politician.