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A leading mental health campaign is helping to put an end to the myths and social stigma surrounding mental health by asking people to share their experiences and personal stories online.

Time to Change Wales is a campaign aimed at ending mental health stigma and discrimination within Wales and has set up a Blogs & Stories section devoted to sharing your insights on mental health issues.

Each blog post centres on someone's personal accounts of their mental health experiences and are a great way to find out about living with often poorly understood mental health problems.

So far a long list of bloggers have offered insights on subjects as wide-ranging as anorexia, depression and personality disorders and even included leading politicians from each of the main political parties.

The idea is part of the Time to Change Wales call to get people to challenge mental health discrimination by simply talking about mental illness and having an open conversation about mental health.

Whether you have a mental health problem or not, you can help end the stigma surrounding the subject right now by reading the posts or following the campaign via its Facebook or Twitter feeds and sharing the stories with your friends and colleagues.

If you'd like to write a blog post please email Time to Change Wales at info@timetochangewales.org.uk.

Download our latest Information Sheet - 14 Mental Health, Deafness and Hearing Loss

There are 534,000 people in Wales with some form of hearing loss and Information Sheet 14 provides professional advice, guidance and support on the impact of hearing loss on mental health.

People with hearing loss are at an increased risk of mental health problems including anxiety, depression and poor self-esteem.

By 2031 the number of people with hearing problems is set to grow to 725,000 so it is a subject which GPs and primacy care practitioners across the country really need to understand.

This latest Information Sheet outlines everything from communication tips through to helping make services more accessible and useful contact details.

Like all our Information Sheets this latest document aims to help raise awareness about and improve mental health services across the country.

Each of our sheets have been developed to provide valuable information, training and support tools on primary care mental health in Wales.

Their publication comes under the set objectives of our Gold Standard Project which has set the goal of providing good communication on mental health issues .

We have a range of other Information Sheets which are all available to download and view on and from our Information Sheets page.

If you have any questions about Information Sheet 14 or trouble viewing or downloading it please contact our Project Manager Lesley Hills via email at lhills@rcgp.org.uk or on 029 2050 4516.

We are set to release our latest Information Sheet - entitled Mental Health, Deafness and Hearing Loss - next week.

There are 534,000 people in Wales with some form of hearing loss and our 14th Information Sheet will cover the impact of hearing loss on mental health.

People with hearing loss are at an increased risk of mental health problems including anxiety, depression and poor
self-esteem.

By 2031 the number of people with hearing problems is set to grow to 725,000 so it is a subject which GPs and primacy care practitioners across the country really need to understand.

Like all our Information Sheets this latest document aims to help raise awareness about and improve mental health services across the country and will be publised on this News & Events Blog and our site on Monday.

Their publication comes under the set objectives of our Gold Standard Project which has set the goal of providing good communication on mental health issues.

We have a range of other Information Sheets which are all available to download from our Information Sheets page.

If you have any questions about Information Sheets or trouble viewing or downloading them please contact our Project Manager Lesley Hills via email at lhills@rcgp.org.uk or on 029 2050 4516.