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‘Man Up’ for Mental Health Week 2017

15/05/2017

As Mental Health Awareness Week 2017 comes to a close in the UK, it falls to each of us to carry on the conversation and be open, if we can, about our own mental health. During my second year of university, I went to the doctors with a mental health issue. The doctor told me that, ‘As a young man, you should be out there enjoying myself’ and ended the appointment by asking, ‘what do you want, a psychiatrist?’ The experience left me unwilling to talk about my mental health with the NHS for years after.