Mental Health Awareness Depression Awareness Pullover Hoodie

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Our Happy slogan represents our belief in being #happytotalk about our mental health, and to open the conversation in a fun, approachable way. We first met in London’s Soho in 1993. One of us (that’s me, Alison) was fresh off the train from Glasgow and interviewing for her dream record company job, and the other (that’s me, Frances), a fun, bubbly Essex girl wearing denim hotpants and a huge smile. Many friends were supportive, and also quite surprised that I’d been hiding this for so long. But, frustratingly, others just didn’t understand that depression is not a choice, or just a ‘bad day’ that can be fixed.

After a couple of rollercoaster decades of showbiz fun and frolics, we replaced Britpop and boybands with babies and businesses, but 25 years on, we’re still best friends.In short, awareness days push us to learn, reflect, and contribute towards a particular issue. Awareness of awareness days allow your organisation to plan content and marketing, get involved in the process, and make the most of increased traction. With that in mind, we put together an awareness days calendar for 2024, covering the most important days, months, and weeks of 2024. Besides which, 90 per cent of knitters say that it reduces their anxiety, so the process of making the thing is important, too. Now, time for me to learn how to knit. Awareness days educate us on specific issues, illnesses, events, and so on. They allow us to explore with a particular topic, encourage research, and invite us to engage. They promote solidarity, too, bolstering a cause and giving people the opportunity to demonstrate – or reaffirm – their support. I realised that I had to stop apologising for how I am. I think fundamentally there’s nothing I can do to change who I am as an anxious person; I can only help myself by creating the least stressful environment possible, finding coping mechanisms for when thoughts are spiralling and be as honest as possible with those around me.

We have both suffered from depression and anxiety. Everybody’s experience is different, so we thought it was best at this point to share our individual experience. Alison: I have suffered with depression since my late teens, but kept it a secret from those closest to me. During low spells, I would hide myself away – so since friends only saw me on the ‘good days’ so many of them had no idea what I really went through. On the outside I was fun and outgoing, but I also suffered from crushing dark spells where I could barely leave the house. We wanted people to be ‘Happy To Talk’ about their mental health, so this became our campaign slogan." It’s only in recent years that I’ve recognised and accepted my experiences of anxiety, and been able to open up about them. I’ve always been ‘a bit of a worrier’, and that won’t ever change, but the hardest times are when it tips out of control into a spiral of stressful thoughts and concerns that I can’t cope with; small things that can seem trivial to friends and family but overwhelming to me at the time.We have turned our personal experiences of anxiety and depression into a fashion brand that is loved by celebs, highlights the importance of talking about mental health, and raises funds for Mind with our distinctive 'Happy' logo tops. We came up with the idea for our 'Happy' sweatshirts for a couple of reasons - we wanted people to be ‘Happy To Talk’ about their mental health, so this became our campaign slogan, and we wanted to do this in a cool, fun way. We didn’t want to create ‘just another charity tee’, we wanted something stylish that people really wanted to wear that also happened to have a great message too.