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Below you can find a series of blogs and short interviews with people talking about their personal experiences with mental health.

Sharing a story about your unique journey with mental health is a great way to encourage others to talk about it as well. We hope this series can help people realise that mental health problems are more common than they think. When more people share their own stories of distress and struggle, and hope and recovery, others can better understand the challenges faced by people with lived experience of mental ill health.

If you would like to share your story, please get in touch via info@mentalhealtheurope.org. Help us spread the word and say NO to stigma and discrimination. Your story counts.

We do not pay for blog posts or accept content that has already been published on other websites.

26 May 2023

MIELI Mental Health Finland: Well-being at work

Blog post about well-being at work and how this is the result of a balance between work demands and positive work resources that are supported by organisational structures. With...
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27 April 2023

In Memoriam

Mental Health Europe mourns the loss of Jolijn Santegoeds, a survivor of coercion and isolation in mental health services and a leading activist on the rights of persons with...
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Dare to Care art collective
23 February 2023

New collective Dare to Care focusing on mental health care in creative art

Dare to Care - Art Collective raises awareness about the influence that precarious work conditions have on young artists' mental health.
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9 February 2023

Understanding ‘The Son’

To clarify some of the messages and practices shown in ‘The Son’, and to provide parents, teachers, caregivers and teenagers with tools to critically approach the movie, we interviewed...
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Antonella Bugeja
29 September 2022

Personal, ever-changing and ongoing: the journey to recovery 

Antonella Bugeja talks about their own mental health experience and how they got from multiple diagnoses to their own journey to recovery.
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Charli Clement (she/they)
12 August 2022

Being hospitalised hindered my recovery: my thoughts on how the mental health system should change

How does hospitalisation impact young people's mental health? Activist and writer Charli Clement shares her experience and recovery journey.
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8 June 2022

In Memoriam Gabor Gombos (1961 – 2022)

Gabor Gombos – a leading expert and activist on the rights of person with disabilities – passed away on Monday 6 June 2022 in Budapest, Hungary
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13 May 2021

Mika Zaikova: Stop, think and take a deep breath

In the run-up to the European Mental Health Week, Mika Zaikova, an economic analyst and a Bulgarian MP talks about things that help her deal with daily challenges of...
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9 May 2021

Ivo Dimchev: Emotions are closely related to all the things we have suppressed in the subconscious

Ivo Dimchev, a choreographer and a visual artist from Bulgaria, shares how recognising emotions helps him navigate through life
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