About the Mind blog

Our blog is a lively forum for discussion.

Each week we post a number of blogs on a range of topics relating in some way to mental health.

A blog post may be someone's personal experience, a reaction to public events, or just views and ideas about how to better shape mental health services, and better support people who experience mental health problems.

Each of our posts is from an individual viewpoint, and we try to represent a range of views on here — from service users to health professionals, from Mind staff to policy makers.

Join the conversation

We welcome comments and questions on our posts, and value the blog as a forum for conversation. Please be aware that there are a few ground rules you must acknowledge when commenting, to keep the site welcoming and interesting to everybody.

All comments will be approved by a moderator before they will be published. We will not publish any comments which violate our guidelines.

If you are interested in writing a blog for us, email Mind's Digital Team at digital@mind.org.uk

Our blog commenting policy

Please respect the following conditions in your post

Above all, be respectful of other commenters and bloggers

We reserve the right to not publish comments that:

• Make personal attacks of any nature.
• Are unlawful, harassing, defamatory, explicit, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, triggering or offensive.
• Advertise for commercial products or services.
• Include material that the poster does not own the rights to.
• Includes contact details of the poster, or anyone else, in the body of the post (phone number, email address, etc).

Please remember that blog posts and the comments sections form a conversation between writer and readers. We reserve the right not to publish comments which attempt to hijack conversations for a personal or irrelevant agenda, for instance by posting comments that are off topic, repetitive, or vindictive.

Submitting your comment

Please note that the name you submit your comment under will be displayed on our website. You are very welcome to post under a pseudonym.

When you submit your comment, you will be asked for your email address. This will never be published, but should we need to contact you about your comment, we will do so using this email address.

All comments on the Mind blog are moderated by Mind’s Digital team. For this reason, comments will not be published immediately after submitting.

Data

Mind reserves the right to republish comments on our blog in other material, such as leaflets, booklets, reports or elsewhere on the Mind website. If we do this, we will not publish your name or any identifying information without your permission.

Mind complies with the 1998 Data Protection Act. If you have any questions about Mind's blog please contact digital@mind.org.uk