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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.