From grieving a parent to becoming a better parent: 22 industry leaders open up about mental health in Heart On My Sleeve storybook
The Mentally Healthy Change Group has released its second storybook as part of the Heart On My Sleeve movement, featuring 22 industry leaders writing vulnerably about the impact COVID-19 has had on their mental health.
The book includes multiple disclosures of anxiety, depression, and other mental health conditions, and PHD joint managing director Lucy Formosa-Morgan’s admission that, at the start of the working from home stretch, she was taking out her stress on her family.
The contributors to the storybook
I wish this would stop.
It’s wonderful the people who have done it and shared something that has made them feel uncomfortable / vulnerable and congratulations for wanting to do your bit – but jeez it feels like 1st world problems and an opportunity for people to do humble brags.
To the curator of this I really think you needed to work much harder to find people genuinely being vulnerable rather than using this as an opportunity for PR.
We keep things hidden because we think the value of them being hidden is greater than sharing it. Many of the people here and elsewhere in society have genuine issues or dark parts of their life that they haven’t shared, (and possibly shouldn’t).
Dealing with mental health issues isn’t a PR opportunity, it ruins it for those who genuinely want to help. This comes back to curation.
the perception of stigma…???
Perception of stigma requires someone to direct it.
Please focus on those directing it.
Your focus matters.
Well done all.
A problem shared is a problem halved and reading these stories has made me feel better about my own situation. It also makes me feel a sense of togetherness with the industry. we’re all in this together and now more than ever it feels it.
A positive project and even more refreshing it’s from a group of volunteers with no agenda