Steve Nelson: Why Mental Health Awareness Week is making me grumpy

Time for action over awareness

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As something of a mental health supporter and campaigner within financial services, Steve Nelson felt a bit grumpy about the slogans and hashtags being deployed during this year's Mental Health Awareness Week. In this column for PA he explains why...

So, the good people at Professional Adviser sent me my Personality of the Year award in the post this week for the bits and bobs I do for mental health in the sector. Something that is still (1) a bit weird but lovely and (2) proof that the rest of the sector needs to up its game! Truth is, though, while it's all nice and serendipitous that this happened in #mentalhealthawarenessweek of all weeks, all those hashtags and slogans are making me a bit grumpy. I had a mini-rant on the Twitter the other day about it with the net result (breaking the fourth wall of article writing here) being a...

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