Category: Mental Health Awareness Week

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‘This Mental Health Awareness Week, remember there are ways to create your own digital safe space’

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Just Like Us ambassador Heather Smy reflects on her evolving relationship with social media, sharing how curating a separate, art-focused Instagram account helped her create a positive digital space that supports her mental health and LGBTQIA+ identity. WORDS BY HEATHER SMY I created my first Instagram account in March 2015 when I was 13 years old. Back then, social media was just a space for me to share photos of my cats and keep an eye on whatever One Direction was up to. Fast forward 10 years, and social media is…

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‘Dialogue and visibility was key to transforming my mental health’

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Just Like Us ambassador Rich Bartlett on how speaking in schools about his sexuality has impacted his mental health. WORDS BY RICH BARTLETT HEADER BY LIV LAWRENCE Many of the years I spent in secondary school were also spent hiding my true self. I grew up in Australia where navigating the path to accepting my sexuality was not only rocky, but desperately lonely. The lack of representation both at school and in society more broadly made me think that it would be very difficult to ever come out, let alone…

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Will Young opens up about “loneliness” and “abandonment” for Mental Health Awareness Week

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Will Young has opened up about the ways he looks after his mental health and how far his career has come since Pop Idol. Speaking on Bottoming, an LGBTQ+ mental health podcast, he told hosts Matthew and Brendan that the “worst type of loneliness I think is a sort of sense of abandonment…that’s certainly what I used to have.” “You know that’s what I call a spiritual wounding, and that’s a tricky thing to fill, it’s a tricky chasm to fill, but it can be filled,” he continued. The bonus…

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