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Celebrating Mental Health Awareness Week

From today (Monday 10 May) until Sunday 16 May it is Mental Health Awareness Week, a campaign first launched by the charity Mind back in 2001, which has since become one of the most widely-recognised observances of mental health issues globally.

The aim of the campaign is to raise awareness of the existence of mental health issues, the importance of fighting any associated stigma and the need to support each other so that we can all achieve - or work our way towards - good mental health. While this is of course always an important subject, Mental Health Awareness Week takes on a new poignancy in 2021 after a year of lockdowns, arguably one of the most challenging years our NHS has had to deal with and a prolonged period of time where face-to-face contact simply wasn't an option. But often in the face of adversity, something posi...