Share your story

Sharing your experience can:

• Inspire others who may feel isolated
• Challenge misconceptions about mental health
• Contribute to a more compassionate understanding
• Support your own and other people’s healing journey

We always like to hear from people with lived experience of mental health issues, especially if you have accessed support from Mental Health UK. Whether you’ve accessed our online help and information, received money advice from us, taken part in one of our young people’s programmes, or benefitted from our employment support – we’d love you to get in touch.

We are really grateful to you for sharing your story. We receive a high number of requests and may not be able to respond to all of them, but we will contact you to let you know if we are going to take your story forwards.

Content submission guidelines

In order to maintain the integrity of our website, we adhere to the following:

• Stories must be original and published exclusively on our site
• We avoid sharing names/brands of medication or hospitals
• Guest blogs and sponsored content are not accepted
• We cannot promote or endorse books
• All submissions must be previously unpublished and unique to our platform.

How do we support you with sharing your story?

Exploring our personal experiences and sharing your story is deeply personal and takes courage.

We want you to share your experience as comfortably as possible. It may be useful to think about how much you’re happy to share with the public and how much you’d rather keep private; if you’re happy to publish under your own first name or a pseudonym. Thinking about your boundaries will make sharing your story a positive, safe and healing experience.

If you’d like to withdraw your personal story at any point, please let us know and we will act accordingly.

We will support you throughout this process by ensuring we:

• never share your story without your consent (if under 18, we require a parent/guardian’s consent)
• provide you with support throughout capturing your story
• withhold identifiable details to ensure your anonymity should you request it.

How do we refine your story?

In order to ensure every story is clear and readable, we may edit your story. We will involve you in this process and ensure you have approved the final version to be published. Also, we are mindful of the impact of reading stories on others, so we may modify the copy in the following ways:

• we avoid where possible copy that might be triggering for others
• we don’t describe suicide or self-harm methods
• we don’t express political or religious viewpoints
• we don’t include derogatory comments that are unkind or demeaning.

Submissions you share will be in line with our Privacy policy and full consent confirmed prior to publishing.