Carey Mulligan becomes Dementia Friends Ambassador

Actress Carey Mulligan’s has been appointed by the Alzheimer’s Society and Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt as the UK’s first global Dementia Friends Ambassador. Here she talks to the BBC about it  

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Postnatal depression: “I felt like I was limping through a permanent twilight”

Gabby Hutchinson Crouch writes for BBC Radio Comedy, Huffington Post UK and Standard Issue.  Here she shares her experience of postnatal depression and encourages us all to bring the subject out of the dark.  

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Ruby Wax talks about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder –

Launched in May 2008, BBC Headroom was a two year mental health and wellbeing project which aimed to raise awareness of the importance of good mental health. Ruby Wax  hosted a weekly web-chat covering a range of different mental health and wellbeing issues drawing on her psychotherapy training and personal experience of depression.        

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Mark Lockyer: ‘I was convinced I would die if I went back on stage’

Mark Lockyer, a leading classical actor who has worked with both the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Globe and the National Theatre and now back with the RSC,  tells of his own battle with mental illness and keeping well.  

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The thing most likely to kill me is me

September 10th is World Suicide Prevention Day.  Why not contact someone you may be concerned about and ask them how they are doing.  Or, make a point of raising awareness about mental health within your social media network.  Do have a look at this short film inspired by verbatim theatre from CALM (The Campaign Against Living Miserably).  

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Mental health in the arts: Are we talking about it enough?

In this article from the Evening Standard performers explain to Jessie Thompson how working in the arts can impact upon their mental health

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