Celebrity campaigns encourage talk about mental health

Anti-mental health stigma group Time to Change launched part of its latest campaign last week with a range of celebrities encouraging people to talk about mental health issues. Campaigns like this should be welcomed as an increasingly important tool in challenging mental health stigma in young people especially. Frankie Sandford, singer in pop group The Saturdays, would seem to live a life that many aspire to – famous, travelling the world playing gigs to adoring fans, going to glamorous parties etc – but, as she has revealed, she has also battled depression. It shows once again that depression can affect