The following blog posts are written by people with personal experience of depression. By talking openly, our bloggers hope to increase understanding around mental health, break stereotypes and take the taboo out of something that – like physical health – affects us all.


4 Goes Mad: Why I decided to speak to the nation about my depression

July 17, 2012

Derek Muir, a Time to Change bloggerDerek Muir

I am 30, married and have a daughter who is almost two. Three weeks ago I stood up in a room full of friends & colleagues and tell them about an illness I had suffered from. I had been diagnosed four years earlier but most of them never knew.

This, in summary, is what I said:

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