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.


When to speak out about mental health problems

April 19, 2012

Photo of Mark, a Time to Change bloggerIt was never part of my plan to work in mental health. In fact as a student in Cambridge in 1990 I had no plan for my life at all. It was then that my psychosis suddenly struck. Although I managed to graduate a year later I was left with a future of medication, incarceration, and no hope of getting better. I certainly never believed I would ever work.

We should educate children about mental health discrimination, but first we must start with the adults.

April 14, 2012

I do not work in a school environment but I do have two daughters - one still a teenager and one who is a young adult.

Over the years, I have heard the use different words to describe friends and peers. I have taken each word on its merits and I guess on whether or not it has ‘pushed my buttons’.

Words that children and teenagers use are not generally meant in an unkind way when they are said as part of banter ... The problem arises I think when they are used to hurt deliberately

5 tips on investing in your mental wellbeing for International Women's Day

March 8, 2012

International Women's Day logoI've started and re-started this blog entry four times now, getting more and more frustrated each time. Trying to encapsulate the female experience is like trying to pluck the moon out of the night sky - you can hold your hand up to it, but can never actually accomplish the feat.

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