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.
For people with mental health issues, it can be an excruciating and exhausting experience. Daily life is enough of a struggle for us to cope with without additional pressures that poor mental health can bring.
When someone around you is struggling, your natural instinct is to help however you can: A friend sprains their wrist, you carry their coffee; your partner has a cold, you make hot lemon drinks; your colleague has a heavy workload, you do some photocopying for them.
I've always found it hard to speak out. I always knew I had issues within myself, and I've always felt a let-down to my family that I didn't fit in. I never felt I could speak to my mother as I automatically thought she would judge and be disappointed in me. The prospect of being mentally ill was daunting and scary I just wanted to feel normal.