Time To Change Campaign
The picture posted in my previous post (Some Conversations…) randomly disappeared, on my end at least, so I went searching for it again online! Turns out it’s apart of a whole campaign!
Time to Change (
http://www.time-to-change.org.uk
) is a UK campaign aimed at getting people talking about mental health challenging mental health stigma!
Coelacanth Diaries was commissioned to draw the very cartoon I posted yesterday and drew more that I would like to post throughout because they’re great!
Might I suggest, "Hello".
There’s no need to treat us like we don’t speak the same language as you or that all we want to talk about is our illness. I’ve heard of similar things happening to individuals who are diagnosed with cancer. Suddenly no one knows how to talk anymore when they only thing that has changed about them is they have a diagnosis of an disease. They are still the same person!
Does a mental health issue affect the way you communicate, interpret situations and behave? Yes, it can but that doesn’t mean that regular conversation should be avoided.
Just, stop the ignorance. It’s very unappealing!
Posted on April 26, 2012, in Articles/Video/Campaigns/Photos, Humor, Madness, Mental Health, Stigma/Discrimination, The Facts and tagged cancer, Coelacanth Diaries, conversation, discrimination, mental health, mental illness, stigma, support, Time to Change, UK. Bookmark the permalink. 10 Comments.
I have felt very uncomfortable with certain people after disclosing that I suffer from bipolar disorder. I still feel that way.
I’m sorry to hear that, that’s happened to you. It’s so silly what we’ll let affect our interactions. I know I’ve probably done it at one point to someone (not necessarily because of a mental health issue) and I guess it comes back to education. People want to feel comfortable in knowing how to deal with certain types of people?
Either Australia or New Zealand have developed some really fantastic commercials around mental health. I will see if I can find the link for you. The commercials make me exceedingly sad at how the United States treats people with mental health needs.
I would love to see them if you can find them!
Canada doesn’t really have many commercials about mental illness. Recently there’s been one on depression but it’s just a woman talking to a doctor about how prevalent depression is. We get the American antidepressant ads (Canadian drug ads wont tell you what the drug is for unlike American ads) and ads for Canadian mental health events that CTV supports.
Here is the link to the commercials in New Zealand: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQk8a3-QYKU Makes me want to move to NZ.
LOVE IT! I love how it says “how much they suffer depends on you”! I’m sharing this on FB and Twitter!
Please do share it! I’m going to do a blog entry on it.
Thanks Michael, that’s a cracking commercial. I always loved the song too
I too will share on my blog.
Yes, I have to admit, I really love the song they put with the commercial. I only wish Americans would look at mental health with no judgment.
I’m off to do a charity walk across Northern Spain soon for the charity Rethink – ll be blogging & raising funds along the way so please feel free to share if you think it’s worthwhile: http://timeforarethink.net all the best, David