The #itaffectsme campaign aims to create a conversation around mental health issues and reveal just how prevalent they are. Laura Darrell,the woman behind the campaign, explains why it’s so essential to herMental health issues, and they affect me. I suffer from anxiety,and find the pressures of the work-life balance, relationships and everything that comes with society’s view of “being a woman”, and makes me worry. A lot. [br]I am also a comedian. Mental health might seem like a trait amongst us joke tellers with big comedy names coming out of the mental health closet and many now bravely mining their experiences for jokes onstage: not to ridicule the experience but to start conversations. Ruby Wax has long been a beacon of honesty when it comes to what is going on inside her head and Australian comedian Felicity Ward performed a brilliant reveal about anxiety at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival (which hits the Soho theatre in March). Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com