Mental Health Advert – How Does Our Facebook Page Help

Now, a healthy diet doesn’t require lots of money or newfangled appliances or subsisting on any kind of scheme that sounds like a gimmick.

Since it’s true what they say about what seems should definitely do again, and for the opportunity to do it I owe a huge debt of gratitude to the Time To Change team. It made me feel a lot better about myself and more positive going forward. Make sure you leave some comments about it in the comment box. The reaction from my friends and, more incredibly, from people I didn’t know was overwhelming.

Feelings that came from that blog made me look for to share what I had been through so I wrote the amount of messages I received from people on Facebook about my article was staggering. Personal experiences of mental health problems are rarely spoken about in my experience. You can access a large community 24/7 7 and, especially for people who work, it’s good to have some connection with people who understand routine with mental health problems. Anyway, the Time to Change Facebook page does help. Whenever detailing the difficulties that came with my diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder, I am still stunned at the overall amount of responses to my blog, published on the Time to Change Facebook page. Known regression methods were used to examine the effect of NY State’s antismoking advertising, overall and by advertisement type, on making a quit attempt in the past 12 months.

Exposure to antismoking advertising was measured in two ways.

Second, advertising effectiveness is attributable in part to advertisements with strong graphic imagery or negative emotion.

Now look, the sample for this study consists of 9408 current smokers from the tal NY ATS sample. Third, smokers with poor mental health do not appear to benefit from exposure to antismoking advertising therefore this study aims to, a cross sectional, ‘random digit dial’ telephone survey of adults aged 18 or older in NY State conducted quarterly from 2003 through 2011. Antismoking advertising promotes quit attempts among racial/ethnic minority smokers and smokers of lower education and income. However, this study yields three important findings. Especially, it suggests that a general campaign can promote cessation among a range of sociodemographic groups. More research is required in case you want to understand what message strategies might work for those with poor mental health. Disparities in bacco use and smoking cessation by race/ethnicity, education, income, and mental health status remain despite recent successes in reducing bacco use. So this study contributes to the evidence about how cessation media campaigns can be used most effectively to increase quit attempts within vulnerable subgroups. I know it’s unclear to what extent media campaigns promote cessation within these population groups. I felt really privileged to listen to the men and women who participated in those clips and felt able to be filmed for a national website.

Let me ask you something. Should I have the guts to do that?

It challenged me to be honest.

I know that the men and women on the clips are heroes! They made me need to stand out or up or in whatever direction to be part of fighting against stigma in what ever way I can. I found it there’re people out there who are unfortunate enough to feel animosity wards those who have mental illnesses and especially illnesses which are on the psychotic spectrum. For instance, while sharing their stories, and others shared my story and ld theirs publicly, quite a few messaged me privately. Keep reading. My Facebook news feed was completely covered in people speaking about their own experiences over the weekend my article was published. For instance, the comments were lovely and I hope my story helped at least one person in some way.

I have also shown the blog to a couple friends to explain what I went through as I previously struggled to tell them certain details.

I joined the Time to Change Facebook page after reading Frankie Sandford’s interview in Glamour magazine.

I was so relieved that there was something positive being done to make mental health not this taboo subject. I hadn’t gone into detail about my illness with loads of my friends at university and I wondered what their reaction will be. Let me tell you something. Seeing my blog appear on Facebook was completely terrifying but also a bit like a sigh of relief. With that said, it’s been the best things I’ve ever done. I was due to go out about 60 minutes after it was published and I returned home to the most overwhelming quantity of support I’ve ever experienced from people I knew well as well as others using the Time to Change Facebook page.

Something which may have seemed more difficult to do with someone they knew, It gave people the opportunity to speak out and, for others, the ability to connect.

The blog I wrote was mainly a retrospective one and was highly cathartic for me.

It seemed as though it was a final chapter in my recovery. I joined the Facebook community early in 2012 after stumbling across it via the website. As a result, if I look for that to change, I’m almost sure I have to do my bit, it was also at that point I realised that I have kept my own depression a secret for so long precisely because of the stigma. Lots of info can be found online. I was in a pretty miserable and confused place at the time. Keep reading! Quite a few of the stories and experiences shared on the site resonated with me. Time to Change gives that. We need to be able to talk openly about how we really are, what’s really wrong and not live in the fear of rejection because of a label or as long as we have the dreaded word mental before our illness. This is the case. While encouraging and caring response, I was amazed to have my blog accepted, stunned to see it appear on my own Facebook wall, and overwhelmed by the accepting.

It had a big impact on how I see myself and following the stories of others, in situations both similar and very different, makes me realise I do belong to part of a bigger, more diverse, more inclusive community than I ever could’ve imagined. Initially, in many ways I didn’t feel I belonged in the community, that I didn’t have a serious enough diagnosis or sufficiently traumatic past. There were and after all didn’t look for days. That’s right! Seeing my blog on the Time to Change Facebook page felt quite overwhelmingly public! People seek and share advice and some, inspired by previous blogs, write about their personal story with an eye to the typical feelings of guilt and shame, before therefore I’d kept my illness to myself. On looking the website I found the Facebook link and ‘liked’ the page. Nevertheless, I would take something from every one that I read -a phrase, a sentence, a feeling -and bit by bit I felt less alone. Soon the blogs started appearing on my timeline -courageous and inspirational words from people that had been through what I was going through.

Whenever talking about mental health problems,can strengthen friendships, aid recovery, break down stereotypes and take the taboo out of something that affects us all, whether on Facebook or individually. In a recent survey of our followers, 62 said that they’d be more willing to talk about mental health with family and friends, for a reason of joining our page. For the majority of us, it’s good to see how many people out there who seek for to make a difference. I really think that people who have not got mental health problems my be shocked to read the Facebook pages and if it just helps one person become more empathetic it’s done its job. I think it does as long as otherwise they tend to get swallowed up in everyday lifespan. Remember, reading other peoples blogs and stories reminds me that I am in a community of people all fighting for really similar thing.

For me writing blogs is just as helpful as reading them since it allows me to channel my often disruptive thoughts into something that is both meaningful and beneficial to others. I am not alone and that’s something that I can cling onto when things get hard. I found the Ruby Wax interviews helpful when I went back to work after a period of illness. Then, her attitude wards the people she met with mental illnesses was heart warming and, in time, I felt more confident to be open with people I trusted at my new place of work. On p of that, I decided to join the Facebook community. Then again, this was my first step to publicly showing some engagement with the fight against mental health discrimination, I’m ashamed to say I wasn’t yet ready to make a public ‘pledge’. Consequently the next day I felt more positive than I had for a long time. While writing about his diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder, that is what I suffer from, the blog that really changed things for me was written by a man called Andy.