Friends, family and mental health: blogs and stories
These blogs are written by people with personal experience of mental health problems and about their experiences of friends, family and mental health. This could be a mother writing about how she supported her daughter or someone writing about how their friends treated them differently after learning of their mental illness
Our Stigma Shout survey showed that almost 9 out of 10 people with mental health problems (87%) reported the negative impact of stigma and discrimination on their lives. The research also showed that the way family, friends, neighbours and colleagues behave can have a big impact on the lives of people with mental health problems.
Simply talking to someone about their mental health problem can help strengthen relationships, help recovery and challenge the stigmatising stereotypes that surround mental illness.
By writing about their personal experiences of mental health, these bloggers aim to break down stereotypes and take the taboo out of something that affects people across the country. Pledge to share your experience of mental health today >>
About five months ago, my partner and I were struggling with coming to terms with the devastating effect my 
Snap out of it!' is a production, premiering in Cambridge this March, that tackles the ideas and stereotypes that have attached themselves to mental health issues. It will almost wholly be constructed from the words and thoughts of real people who have had personal experience of 
Some people will scoff when I say I've been spurred on to write my thoughts out as candidly as I'm about to by a song in the charts. Listening to the radio a song really jumped out at me recently by Kelly Clarkson entitled 'Dark Side',
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