16th Post

Hi, it's Jim here

Today we have been talking about at the general public's perception of mental health, and what we can do to challenge it.

We want to get the message across that people who have experienced mental distress are just the same as everybody else. We want to make people aware that things that are accepted as a part of everyday life, such as exam or work related stress, could be considered mild forms of anxiety; an illness that still receives a lot of discrimination as it is a form of mental ill health. By raising awareness of this, we hope to make the topic of metal health seem less threatening, so the 1 in 4 of us who experience some form of mental ill health at any one time don't have to feel ashamed or alone.

At the moment, we are just bouncing ideas off the walls about in what directions we want to take this, but have made no firm decisions as of yet.

15th Post

Hello all,

This is Natalie of the Talk Bank Action Group. The group thought that it would be quite apt for me to write this weeks post as I wrote the first one and as this week is my last week at MAGMH.

The group are focusing on writing letters to the editor at the Sentinel today. The focus of such letters will be....

What a shame the Sunday Sentinel has ended!

This will be from a mental health focus as there will be a lack of personal interest stories, such as the Personal Testimony Articles that Talkbank members often feature in.

Where is the male feature to match the 'Sentinelle' pull out published on a Tuesday.

This is important to our group as the Sentinel has expressed that it will be difficult to feature male focused pieces now that the Sunday Sentinel has finished.

Why didn't the Sentinel report on World Mental Health Day?

For obvious reasons!

How great the World Mental Health Day Celebrations were!

To draw attention to the events that took place that were not featured in the Sentinel.

So just to leave you all with the following sentiment really,

keep on keeping on folks!

It has been a real pleasure to work with a group of such intelligent, inspirational, strong and thoroughly nice people. You should be very proud of your achievements. I will be keeping an eye on the blog to see the great work that I'm sure you will be doing and will look forward to reading the next edition of the Talkbank Times!

Take Care

Nat

x

14th POST

Hi everyone this is Helen, I am doing the post this week for the TALKBANK TIMES. and what a busy day it has been! (so busy that I didn't have time to do the post in the office....I'm doing it from home....it's 8-50pm.) What dedication!!....just joking.
The Talkbank Action Group members met up at 11am (David, Josie, Claire, Faz, myself, together with Amanda and Natalie)

We started by proof reading the first draught of the Talkbank Times, looking for any omissions/errors etc.

We then went on to decide on the order the pages were going to be displayed.

Next stage was the photocopying.

Then stapling all the pages together.

Would you believe we now have a nine page news letter, (all the previous editions had just 4 pages)

We have our first 100 copies completed!

We have also done a colour version, (which looks fantastic!!)

And finally we have done a p.d.f. format, (which is brilliant!!)

The final end result is superb!!....a work of art!!!

What great teamwork!!

13th POST

Hello my name is Joe Knapper and i am writing about todays quote about positive thinking 'A road walked twice is never as long' Mental Health Aawareness Week is here and we at the MAGMH are helping to promote mental health issues Once a road as been walked once the next walk is not as long .Joe Knapper Media Action Group For Mental Health.