Time to Change's blog

This week is The Mental Health Foundation's Mental Health Awareness Week, in which they're focussing on the benefit of physical activity and mental wellbeing. We asked our bloggers to tell us the role that physical activity has in their wellbeing.

Exercise? You must be joking!

Blogger: 99LillyBet

Evaluation of the first few years of the Time to Change programme (2007 - 2011) published today shows that there's been a significant reduction in the amount of discrimination that people with mental health problems report. 

We asked our bloggers what Time to Change means to them and how their lives have changed since first hearing about the campaign to end mental health discrimination.

Name: Emma

New research has shown that only one in four people who have experienced a mental health problem have received a get well card during their illness, even though 80% say that a card would be a good way for others to let them know they are thinking of them.

To celebrate Valentine's Day, we asked some of our bloggers to talk about how they manage the issue of mental health with their partners. Read on for some good advice, some home truths and some tear-jerking loveliness!