New research released today (Wednesday 26 March) shows a shocking 93 per cent of people from Black and Minority Ethnic communities who have mental health problems face discrimination because of them (1).
The report shows people are trying to cope with discrimination across various areas of life, such as finding and keeping a job, relationships and friendships, and social life; and suggests that people from Black and Minority Ethnic communities are facing discrimination in double the number of areas as the wider population.
Thursday 6 February was the first ever Time to Talk Day where we aimed to get more people talking about mental health than ever before. We set ourselves an ambitious target of reaching a million conversations about mental health and thanks to all of you we beat this target and achieved an incredible 1,066,506 conversations. Take a look at our infographic to see how we reached the target:
It's time to celebrate another ground-breaking year in tackling the stigma of mental health problems. It’s been a busy year, and here are our 10 biggest highlights of the year:
Sue Baker, Director of Time to Change, the mental health anti-stigma programme run by Mind and Rethink Mental Illness, said:
"With ongoing coverage about Thamsanqa Jantjie, the interpreter at Nelson Mandela's memorial, and with the full facts yet to emerge, we urge commentary of the story to avoid reinforcing damaging stereotypes of people with mental health problems. Particularly when talking about the risk of violence in relation to people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia as the vast majority of people pose no risk to anyone.”
