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Read our blogs

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.

8 May 2021

Mila Bobadova: I want to be responsible, that’s why I see a therapist

Read our interview with Dr Bobadova, one of the 100 most influential women in Bulgaria, about the need for an open conversation on mental health.
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5 May 2021

Crisis and creativity: how I found my true calling during the pandemic

In the run-up to the European Mental Health Week, writer and artist Sophia Klose shares how the pandemic led her to a career change towards mental health.
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3 May 2021

Listen to those with mental ill-health; end coercion in mental healthcare

Read about Belle de Jong's experiences at Mount Carmel Hospital and why we need to end coercion in mental healthcare.
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27 January 2021

Turning a lens on the challenges of mental health

In this interview Aoife Casey shares her mental health journey and how she uses art as a recovery tool.
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24 November 2020

What a relief to take off the mask and share your mental health problem

In this interview Mateusz Biernat shares his experiences of mental ill health and his journey of recovery.
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19 August 2020

It is not always easy but our capacity for change is much higher than we think

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17 August 2020

Transparency is not enough

In a society where a biomedical model of mental health is still too prominent, a lack of transparency and independence has led to the over-medicalisation of mental health.
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27 May 2020

This is a global experience, even if experiences vary tremendously due to inequality

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20 May 2020

Allow every feeling but focus on good things every day

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