Health Matters: We can learn skills to build resilience in face of adversity By Contributor Published: 18:30, 07 February 2021 Get the Inverness Courier sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day's newspaper Dr Neil McNamara on coping with crisis. Nearly a year ago, as the spectre of Covid began looming, with a little bit of hope and a little bit of fear I started out in a new role as clinical director for mental health services. Some days this seems like a daunting challenge, with responsibility for highly specialist intensive hospital units as well as community teams dispersed across nine different districts in a landmass famously the size of Belgium.