A report published by the mental health anti-stigma programme, Time to Change, has revealed that mental health is still a topic off limits around the dinner table as nearly one in five parents feel awkward discussing it with their child as they don’t want to scare them – despite it affecting one in four of us in any given year and one in ten children.
We've been asking people to wear our #TimetoTalk tattoos to help spread start conversations about mental health.
You may have seen celebrities like Frankie from The Saturdays, This Morning's Matt Johnson, comedian Russell Kane, Ruby Wax and boxer Ricky Hatton sporting their tattoos and tweeting about their support for the #TimetoTalk campaign this week on twitter. Well now you can order your own to wear, and to share the message that it's #TimetoTalk about mental health.
Ever wondered how soap storylines are written? Or how script writers try to make the mental health problems of their characters realistic?
In our brand new magazine, Speak Out, we go behind the scenes on two of Britain’s best loved soaps, Eastenders and Emmerdale, to discover how people with lived experience of mental health problems helped shape two recent storylines.
Today, it has been announced that we have been awarded a further £3.6million by the Big Lottery Fund to deliver targeted work to drive major social change by challenging the stigma and discrimination that people with mental health problems face.
