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World Mental Health Day - Sunday 10 October - Light a candle at 7pm to raise awareness

AoifeAoife Inactive Posts: 3,222 Boards Guru
edited October 2021 in General Chat
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Hi everyone,

World Mental Health Day is on Sunday 10th October and this year's theme is 'Mental Health in an Unequal World'.

To recognise the importance of this day and join the fight for mental health equality, I thought we could light candles at 7pm together and post photos of them in this discussion.

If you don't have a candle, you can still take part by sharing a photo from Google or using one of these GIFs.

Let's join the fight for mental health equality <3
Maybe somethings don't get better, but we do. We get stronger. We learn to live with our situations as messy and ugly as they are. We fix what we can and we adapt to what we can't. Maybe some of us will never fully be okay, but at least we're here. We're still trying. We're doing the best we can. That's worth celebrating too ❤

Comments

  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 111 The Mix Convert
    This is such a fantastic idea to do! I will be joining for sure.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 3 Newbie
    I’ll be joining too. Great idea
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 156 Helping Hand
    This sounds really good!
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 156 Helping Hand
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    my mum lit a candle 🕯
  • Former MemberFormer Member Ex-Teenage Dirtbag Posts: 804 Part of The Mix Family
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  • Laura_tigger82Laura_tigger82 Discussion Boards Moderator Posts: 5,437 Part of The Furniture
    What an amazing thread! Thanks for initiating it
    @Aife Made my day to see all these candles. I hope everyone felt supported today, as always. We are always here for each other :)
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  • AoifeAoife Inactive Posts: 3,222 Boards Guru
    It's been lovely to see all of your candles posted here, such a nice way for us all to remember this day together.

    @Laura_tigger82 - it's made by day too seeing the candles!

    Unfortunately I wasn't working yesterday to log in, but here's my candle from yesterday <3

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    Maybe somethings don't get better, but we do. We get stronger. We learn to live with our situations as messy and ugly as they are. We fix what we can and we adapt to what we can't. Maybe some of us will never fully be okay, but at least we're here. We're still trying. We're doing the best we can. That's worth celebrating too ❤
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