Gillian Anderson swears to help mental health in young people

Gillian Anderson has joined up with MQ mental health to raise much needed awareness for mental health in young people.

Gillian had her own experience with mental health as child, telling The guardian‘ “I was put in therapy at 14! And that started a different path for me, and all the energy I was putting into self-destruction and ‘poor me, and nobody understands me’, I started to funnel into what I was going to do with my life.”

I give a s*** about young people’s mental health. Join me & @MQmentalhealth in swearing to take it on. #WeSwear https://t.co/VqjCFjz8Va pic.twitter.com/X9Oir7fiSO

— Gillian Anderson (@GillianA) January 17, 2017

MQ’s mission is “to create a world where mental illness is understood, effectively treated, and ultimately prevented. With the help of our supporters and a global network of leading scientists we can make this a reality. Together we are championing and funding research into mental health that will change millions of lives.”

The first step is awareness.

Many other celebrities including Mel C from the Spice girls are supporting the campaign and you too can create and create your photo of support too on the MQ website.

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16 Comments

- - mom81879 said
  - 18 Apr 2017
    7:52 am
Great idea. Young people need a voice, it’s good seeing some star power getting behind these things

- - Nas01 said
  - 19 Mar 2017
    10:24 pm
Great initiative. It’s fantastic to see so many prominent people endlessly work hard to remove the stigma associated with mental health problems.

- - ella12 said
  - 21 Feb 2017
    10:18 am
This is wonderful. Good on her! (-:

- - mom101628 said
  - 20 Feb 2017
    3:47 pm
Great and important campaign. Thanks for bringing to more peoples attention.

- - rovermum said
  - 20 Feb 2017
    9:43 am
I fully support acknowledgement and awareness of mental illness in young people.

- - tessie said
  - 18 Feb 2017
    9:02 am
Thank you Gillian for bringing more awareness into this important matter for young people.

- - Ellen said
  - 18 Feb 2017
    8:55 am
So important !!

- - Stef said
  - 17 Feb 2017
    2:05 am
This is great! We need more awareness! I strongly admire this campaign!

- - mom112217 said
  - 03 Feb 2017
    8:58 am
Good on Gillian,a great campaign.

- - welshmummy said
  - 01 Feb 2017
    7:43 pm
Wonderful campaign. We need to bring the mental health of our children out in open and spend more funding on it.

- - nealsq said
  - 28 Jan 2017
    11:32 pm
it is great to see celebrities throwing their support behind these formally taboo issues

- - mom177164 said
  - 28 Jan 2017
    12:57 pm
mental health is a big problem but with the right support people can get the help they need. what needs to be beaten is the war on drugs

- - mom81879 said
  - 27 Jan 2017
    7:54 am
It always helps to have a famous face supporting a cause, they bring so much attention and focus to issues

- - Ellen said
  - 27 Jan 2017
    7:52 am
As a psychiatric nurse I found this of course a great campaign to support !

- - mom93821 said
  - 27 Jan 2017
    6:50 am
I love it when people with a big public profile support such important causes and metal health is an important cause. We need to look after our young people early on in life and deal with these issues and offer support.
- mom93821 replied
  
  28 Jan 2017 , 8:36 am
  Breaking the stigma around mental illness is oh so important.