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As I write this it is half way through Mental Health Awareness Week, I'm actually not a huge fan of these various awareness weeks and days. But this week I've realised they aren't really for me (I'm waiting for the mental illness awareness week) and this years theme of loneliness is quite a good one. Not that long ago I ran a session for my team on mental health at work as one of them asked 'what is it?'. The presentation explained we all have mental health, every single one of us, but not all of us have mental ill-health. And although there are things we can all do to keep our mental wellbeing and health generally okay, dealing with stress, burnout, being kind to ourselves - sometimes there isn't much we can do about mental illness at least not to stop it from arising. There is plenty we can do when we're in it and ideally plenty of people and services to help us. What I see is that awareness weeks and days (like Time to Talk) are to help us all mana...