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I'm tired of talking. What I want now is change.

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I guess it isn't Time To Change's fault. I mean the logo says 'let's end mental health discrimination." It doesn't say 'lets improve mental health services'. Or 'Time to change mental health services" or "Time to hold mental health services/government/god to account". And I am also conscious that to take this campaign for my own ends, my own argument is to fail to recognise that stigma does still exist that it does still cause harm, that people are still afraid to talk, to get help and that this still kills. But I am not denying that 13 years after the campaign began and days like today, weeks like mental health awareness week, and months like mental health awareness month we still have a lot to do. And in the absence of any particular day to make my case I will choose today. And in keeping with it being 13 years since the launch of Time To Change (according to google), here are 13 things that I think we need to talk about. We ne...