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Your Coun­try Needs YOU!

1 in 4 of us all at some time in our life will be affected by men­tal illness!

Remem­ber it could be you! in fact it is a good chance it will be!

It’s time we all stood up and were counted!

Join me and ensure that stigma and dis­crim­in­a­tion is erad­ic­ated in our coun­try, regions and com­munit­ies in our life­time, for the bene­fit of all includ­ing the future gen­er­a­tions to come!

Ask your­self what you can do for your coun­try not what your coun­try can do for you!

Well what do I propose?

TBPBMD is ask­ing for volun­teers to take the fight to those in our com­munit­ies, regions and coun­try who would have us believe that those of us with men­tal health con­di­tions are noth­ing but a drain on soci­ety, and that we are incap­able of being intel­li­gent in way and in any of our actions.

They often for­get the pos­it­ive bene­fits that those of us with men­tal health issues through­out his­tory have shown and made, con­trib­ut­ing  pos­it­ively to the devel­op­ment of the world and this great coun­try we live in.

We mustn’t for­get nor allow it to be for­got­ten the pos­it­ive con­tri­bu­tions we have and all still make in our com­munit­ies to the bene­fit of all,  in every walk of life and in each and every day there can be found many examples of the bene­fi­tial con­tri­bu­tions made by those of us with men­tal health conditions.

And it is with this in mind and great pride that I have decided the best way we can ensure we tackle the dis­crim­in­a­tion and stigma we all unfor­tu­nately still face every day is by mak­ing sure we OPENUP Minds in soci­ety as a whole by unashamedly, act­ively pro­mot­ing and demon­strat­ing the pos­it­ive attrib­utes we pos­sess, and the bene­fi­cial con­tri­bu­tions we make each and every day, by form­ing com­munity, regional and national Quiz Teams to prove that just because we have men­tal health con­di­tions to con­tend with we are fully cap­able of not only func­tion­ing as do the so called “nor­mal people” in soci­ety but we can also excel in many fields has as been proved throughout history!

What do I hope to achieve by start­ing and pro­mot­ing this campaign?

Firstly I hope to be able to break down the bar­ri­ers we all exper­i­ence, remove the fear and mis­un­der­stand­ing com­monly held with regards those who live with men­tal health con­di­tions, and lastly to demon­strate we are not only just like every­one else but actu­ally we are bet­ter!

Quiz Time?

I look for­ward to wel­com­ing all of those who will not only be more than cap­able of win­ning a quizzes on our behalf, but will rep­res­ent all of us with men­tal health con­di­tions with great pride and con­fid­ence that you will be doing a great ser­vice and mak­ing the dif­fer­ence we can all only dream of!

Be assured You are not just 1 in 4! to us all you are 1 in a million!

Not wish­ing to fall foul of any laws or dis­crim­in­ate against any­one in any­way, God for­bid! I must make it clear we will hap­pily accept with open arms any applic­ants who don’t cur­rently have any men­tal health issues to join our cam­paign and obvi­ously join our Quiz Teams! “just as long as you are clever enough! that is ”

Yours on a mission

TBPBMD Shout!

TBPBMD

Please watch this Blog for fur­ther details on how to con­tact me should you be inter­ested in apply­ing to join or form a Quiz Team to rep­res­ent our cause and help Beat Men­tal Health Stigma and Dis­crim­in­a­tion as part of my “OPENUP” project!

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