Time to Talk Day 2020 isn’t that easy for everyone.

There isn’t any mental health support on the NHS due to lack of funding and family and friends just don’t get your problems and all the NHS can do is put you on a waiting list with support numbers on a letter.

Time to Talk Day 2020 takes place on February 6th.

Every year people are encouraged to talk about their mental health and open up to their family, friends, and professionals, however, mental health teams across the UK are struggling to keep up with the demand for this, and family and friends can’t always deal with their loved-ones issues in today’s busy society.

At the beginning of the year, I received a letter telling me that I have finally been allocated to the local mental health team in my case Trevillis House in Liskeard in Cornwall.

The letter states that I am currently placed on a waiting list and that my mental health will be monitored by phone calls.

The letter was dated January 7th and we are now in February and I’m yet to receive one single phone call.

This is how much help you get. The letter also lists a number of helplines if I need to talk to someone before then.

Time to Talk Day 2020 lack of research and funding

Due to the lack of help available on the NHS, apparently due to funding, despite the fact that Teressa May stated a few years ago that money would be put into funding mental health.

Family and friends can help so much, but they often don’t know how to or what to do or say and they aren’t professionals.

Often those suffering from mental health feel too ashamed or embarrassed to admit how they are feeling to those they are closest to.

Maybe we should actually be using Time to Talk Day 2020 to discuss the lack of research on mental health.

Mental health hasn’t had the funding that Cancer and Heart research and charities have received.

New treatments such as scans on the brain need to be explored.

What are your thoughts?

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What are you doing for Time to Talk Day 2020?