These blogs offer advice and tips on how to talk about mental health to friends, colleagues and family. 

They are written by people with personal experiences of mental health problems who, through talking about mental health openly, aim to break down stereotypes and take the taboo out of something that affects people across the country.


World book day: Books about living with a mental illness

July 4, 2012

On World Book Day 2012, we asked our followers on Facebook and Twitter what books they'd recommend to help people understand what it's like living with a mental health problem.

And now we've updated them with even more suggestions for World Book Day 2013!

Books can provide a way to understand what it's like to live with a mental health problem and help to break down the stigma and stereotypes around something that affects us all.

Don't just talk about mental health

June 15, 2012

Illustration of Nikki, a Time to Change video bloggerIt’s easy to get tunnel vision when you’re campaigning for the end of stigma and discrimination towards mental health because you just want everyone to accept sufferers for who they are, to understand that we are not freaks of nature. But most importantly because we want people to start talking openly about mental health.

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