DAY FOUR | WEAR IT GREEN DAY | MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK 2025

“Be a rock to others in need, be a rock of support to those who are facing critical issues, be a rock full of caring, but be a rock who recognizes that you also will experience times when you need to seek your own rock.”

Byron Pulsifer

Wear it Green Day | Mental Health Foundation

Today, the Mental Health Foundation has created a fundraising event/campaign branded Wear It Green Day (hence the photos in my green jumper!). The purpose of today is to both raise money for the Foundation’s research and delivery of programmes, and to increase general awareness of mental health. They have created an entire page on their website which is full of information, promotional social media graphics and useful, downloadable resources:

Poster

Bunting

Raffle Guide

Sponsorship Forms

Quizzes

Conversation Cards

DAY THREE MHAW | A COMMUNITY-THEMED Q&A WITH A CAT CARE VOLUNTEER | MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK 2025 WITH CATS PROTECTION

Cats Protection | UK’s Largest Cat Welfare Charity

Twitter: @catsprotection

Facebook: Cats Protection

Instagram: @catsprotection

More info on Mental Health Awareness Week (MHAW):

Mental Health Awareness Week | Mental Health Foundation

“There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.”

Margaret J. Wheatley

This year, to celebrate MHAW, I chatted with the lovely Keira Wood; a Cat Care Volunteer from Cats Protection Tyneside, about everything this year’s theme of ‘community’ means to the UK’s largest feline welfare charity and their essential Volunteers…

DAY TWO MHAW | HOW WAYTHROUGH ARE TACKLING ‘COMMUNITY’ | MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK 2025 WITH WAYTHROUGH

“Learn to enjoy and respect each other’s differences.”

Fred Meijer

For the second day of Mental Health Awareness Week 2025, I’ve collaborated with mental health and drug and alcohol support charity; Waythrough. Prior to Richmond Fellowship and Humankind merging, I had been under the care of Richmond Fellowship for almost ten years and was honoured to be a huge part of the communications and marketing aspects to the merger and the creation of Waythrough. In this post, I’ve chatted with another service user and fellow member of the Life Experience Council as well as Waythrough’s Inclusion Manager about how Waythrough have tackled the theme of community…

DAY ONE MHAW | LAUNCH POST | MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK 2025

“Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.”

Horace

I can’t believe Mental Health Awareness Week (MHAW) 2025 is finally here! It feels like forever ago that I was looking at an Awareness Dates website (this one!), saw MHAW was in the next few weeks, and made the on-the-spot decision to create content for it. As you will know if you’ve seen the Content Agenda graphic on my social media (and at the end of this post), a lot of the other pieces are in collaboration with organisations and another blogger, so I decided to use today’s content, to chat through my decision to do MHAW, my ideas for the actual content I’ve put together, and some advice on coping with the things you may find yourself reading about throughout MHAW…

YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED...

You may have noticed a ‘slight’ change to I’m NOT Disordered! This change would be the logo and colour scheme!

There’s going to be a full blog post about the decision to do this, but in the meantime, there’s some lengthy, detailed content about it on my social media…

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Instagram: @aimes_wilson