Molly Gould
Molly's 160ft Bungee Jump
Fundraising for SANE
Story
One in four people are affected by mental health issues in their life time, and of those people, their illness will affect six more people.
I am lucky enough to be able to say that I am not one of the one in four people who have suffered but I am one of the six people that it has affected.
It is horrible to see that spark go from someone, it is like someone has turned the light out to their world. I know what it is like to feel helpless and unable to save someone you care about from the darkness they have become surrounded by. To watch the person you love fall deep and deep into it and be unable to pull them out and all you can do is be there for them.
Sadly, in 2012, 5981 people took their own lives and figures suggest that this figure is on the rise.
Mental illness is not something to be ashamed of, it is a recognised health issue. We need to get away from this idea that people are crazy, they are not. They are just normal people battling their own demons.
SANE is a mental health charity which was established in 1986 to improve the quality of life for people affected by mental illness, following the overwhelming public response to a series of articles published in The Times entitled The Forgotten Illness.
SANE provides emotional and practical support to those who need it, fund research into causes, treatments and impacts of mental health and campaigns to combat stigma and changes attitudes towards mental illness.
So please help by donating, even a small amount will go a long way. £3 enables SANE to provide support and guidance to someone in distress.
Together we can fight the darkness.
I am lucky enough to be able to say that I am not one of the one in four people who have suffered but I am one of the six people that it has affected.
It is horrible to see that spark go from someone, it is like someone has turned the light out to their world. I know what it is like to feel helpless and unable to save someone you care about from the darkness they have become surrounded by. To watch the person you love fall deep and deep into it and be unable to pull them out and all you can do is be there for them.
Sadly, in 2012, 5981 people took their own lives and figures suggest that this figure is on the rise.
Mental illness is not something to be ashamed of, it is a recognised health issue. We need to get away from this idea that people are crazy, they are not. They are just normal people battling their own demons.
SANE is a mental health charity which was established in 1986 to improve the quality of life for people affected by mental illness, following the overwhelming public response to a series of articles published in The Times entitled The Forgotten Illness.
SANE provides emotional and practical support to those who need it, fund research into causes, treatments and impacts of mental health and campaigns to combat stigma and changes attitudes towards mental illness.
So please help by donating, even a small amount will go a long way. £3 enables SANE to provide support and guidance to someone in distress.
Together we can fight the darkness.