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From anger to uicude, mental health i a growing iue, that we are only jut beginning to undertand. There are many iue urrounding why mental health iue exit and how we can eliminate them.

From the infograhpic above, you can clearly ee that the work we do ha improved a great many live, a well a helping thoe that are helping other people.--=

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Why do we help ?

Every year, tons of people, are contemplating killing themelve, or are struggling to live. Thats why we are here, to be there for those that need help and support, also, with youre kind donations, we can provide support for those people.

Every year at least 1 in 4 of us will experience a mental health problem.

However thousands of peolpe are still struggiling to cope every singal day.

There was once a person called claire, and she ended up spending a night in a polics cell on Janurary 1st. Was she drubnk, no, was she stealing, no. all she was, was feeling suicidal. so , for her own good, she was picked up by the police. After many hours already in a cell, the police came back to tell her that she would be spending the rest of thr night in the cell. The police force had called multiple hosptals, however none of them could take claire in and look after her.

Claire was then strip searched, and placed in a cell, next to criminals, drunks and worse. She felt humiliated. The next day, she was imply let go, and was rought back to the police station multiple times after. However, one of those times, MIND was alerted, and intervened. They took Claire to a specialist hospital and she is now to this day improving in her mental health condtions.

So the moral of the story?

well, if MIND wasnt there when Claire needed them most, she would be in a much worse state then she is in today. MIND offered the help to Claire that she most desperately needed.