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Blogs and stories can show that people with mental health problems are cared about, understood and listened to. We can use it to challenge the status quo and change attitudes.

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How CBT helped me find happiness

Kasey

Kasey finally agreed to talking therapy and it transformed her life.
The biases I face as a black woman

Angela

Angela blogs about her experience of accessing mental health care.
Nature photography has helped heal my mind

Ceri

Ceri blogs about the accident that left her with post-traumatic stress disorder – and how she has found a new calm.
Why we need safe spaces in schools

Dev

Dev believes that if he had been encouraged to talk about wellbeing and mental health, he would have been saved a lot of suffering.
Pen and paper helped me through the pandemic

Madeline

The loneliness of lockdown exacerbated Madeline’s mental health problems. Then she started to write about her feelings.
You consumed me – every thought, every outing, everything

Jenna

Jenna writes an open letter to her OCD.
I didn't fail school, my school failed me

Josephine

Josephine blogs about how her school didn't know how to support her when she had serious mental health problems.
How I've lived with schizophrenia

Robert

Robert blogs about how he has found meaning and purpose through his mental illness.
Why men need to talk

Jordan

Jordan blogs about how much better he felt when he opened up about his depression.
My culture stopped me talking about my anxiety

Shetal

Shetal says she only started to tackle her mental health problems when she learnt it was all right to admit to them.
Each photograph is my way of saying I'm not beaten yet

Paul

Wildlife photographer Paul Williams is part of the judging panel for Mind's inaugural membership photography competition. Here he blogs about how photography helped him cope with PTSD and 'find light in the darkness'.
Sut y daeth Monitro Gweithredol â mi'n ôl o ymyl y dibyn

Sarah

Mae Sarah, o Drefforest, yn egluro sut y rhoddodd Monitro Gweithredol y gallu iddi allu dygymod â'i hiselder.

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