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Steve is not my real name – I was given it by the production team filming me anonymously for a new mental health documentary – but I like to think of it as my ‘stage name’. Sounds a bit more glamorous than pseudonym.
14 CommentsViewers of the BBC’s School drama Waterloo Road will this week see one of the characters diagnosed with schizophrenia – a storyline that we helped to develop.
8 CommentsThis is a guest blog by Victoria Aitchison, as part of our series on the Mind Media Awards to be held on 28 November 2011.
Earlier this month I was approached my Mind after they had heard about my final university project ‘You Must Be Mental’. A project based on making the idea of talking about mental health fashionable in teens and young adults.
As a Journalism student myself Mind asked me to review this year’s finalists for the Student Journalist of the Year award. Not only was I pleasantly surprised by the standard but also found myself relating to this year’s entries more than I ever thought I would. Here’s why.
Start the discussionThis guest blog is part of our series on the Mind Media Awards to be held on 28 November 2011.
I’m really interested in mental health, but I don’t know a great deal about it. I’ve never studied psychology or anything like that – just picked things up from watching TV, reading the papers and talking to other people. But I like learning that way, and I think dramas are a great way of indirectly educating ill-informed people like me about issues we might not otherwise hear about.
So I really enjoyed reviewing the shortlist for the drama category in the 2011 Mind Media Awards. This year’s nominees are: Casualty – Place of Safety, Holby City – Skipping a Beat, and Exile.
This guest blog is part of our series on the Mind Media Awards to be held on 28 November 2011.
I’m running a campaign called Start Talking Mental with Battlefront. My campaign aims to encourage young people to talk about mental health and break down stigma. I’m also trying to appoint a National Youth Ambassador for Mental Health.
2 CommentsThis guest blog is part of our series on the Mind Media Awards to be held on 28 November 2011.
Documentary programmes are a useful way of raising awareness about topics in a ‘user-friendly’ format, often using the voice of experience (sufferers, friends and family etc) to illustrate living examples of the impact of the topic in question.
1 CommentThis guest blog is part of our series on the Mind Media Awards. I've long had an interest in how new/ social media can be used to promote constructive dialogue between those who use and work in mental health services, so I was very pleased to be asked to review the New Media nominees for the upcoming Mind Media Awards.
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