Bell's OK let's talk campaign once again misses the mark completely in
the conversation about mental illness and awareness and just reinforces the company's corportate greed.
«I think the more people vocalize what they're going through — their experience or just simply educating themselves so that they can learn more about what they're talking about — that's going to be the key to creating
a conversation about mental illness and making it more understood.
By adding this new feature, we hope that this will open up
the conversation about mental illness and break down the stigma that surrounds it.
«Seb Baird and I founded Mind Your Head almost two years ago to try to bring
conversations about mental illness from the clinical to the social sphere.
Mental Health Week brings awareness Mental Health Week seeks to bring awareness to this «invisible illness», to reduce the stigma around it and to encourage
conversations about mental illness and mental health.
Not exact matches
While nonprofits like To Write Love on Her Arms and Hope for the Day are doing real, measurable good in the area of
mental health, there's just something
about being at the center of pop culture that turns an issue like
mental illness from something we would rather avoid in polite
conversation to something that demands to be discussed.
Some of the topics include childhood grief, living with
mental illness and even a frank
conversations about sex.
I think one way to demystify this romanticization is to have frank
conversations with young people
about the prominent role that
mental illness actually plays in completed suicides.
The opening plenary provides context from the three preceding World Conferences, (Australia 2009, Norway 2010, Vancouver, 2012), a report on global findings from the Children of Parents with a
Mental Illness (COPMI) world survey and activity, and a unique example of how one of those findings is changing the
conversation about parental
mental health.
Similarly,
conversations with your child
about mental illness can help them make sense of their experience.
Although the videos are aimed at young people, they can also be used by parents who may wish to start a
conversation with their children
about mental illness.
The adaptations to the
Mental Health Treatment Plans provide an opportunity for GPs to initiate
conversations about parenting and child and family needs in the context of parental
mental illness.
The parents and young people interviewed for this project stated they wanted to talk to their GP
about the impact of the
mental illness on all of the family members however, they relied on the GP to initiate this
conversation.