Media: Exposing mental health inequality (Channel 4 News)

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This Mental Health Awareness Week, Mind launched an awareness campaign, ‘If this speaks to you, speak to us’. This campaign used spoken word to show the different ways people talk about their experiences, and was also prevalent for World Mental Health Day in October. As Boris Johnson’s government promised reforms, it highlighted substantial mental health inequality in the treatment of black and minority ethnic groups.

I’ll talk about the campaign elsewhere, but this interview on Channel 4 News featured myself and Jords, the brilliant artist who brought my story to life using spoken word. 

We spoke with Victoria Macdonald about shared Caribbean roots and how we came to be involved in the campaign.

It is a privilege to be involved in the campaign and, as I say elsewhere on the site, it felt like such an important one. Spoken word is a brilliant way to reach communities and demographic groups where stigma continues to thrive and where deep systemic inequalities provide significant barriers to people showing vulnerability and speaking about their feelings. This drives mental health inequality in so many communities, not least the Caribbean one in which we grew up.

Didn't want to be here, couldn't find a reason. Until I found a reason.
One of the posters from the campaign

You can view the clip here on the Channel 4 News website.

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