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An initiative from Ruby Wax, Frazzled Cafe meetings provide a ‘talk-in’ place where people who are feeling frazzled can meet on a regular basis to talk and share their personal stories in a safe, anonymous and non-judgmental environment - a place...

Actor/writer Lena Dunham has been open about living with an anxiety disorder, telling People in 2014 that despite her enormous success, she has "kind of worn anxiety grooves into my brain. Here comedian (and depressed person) Jacqueline Novak talks...

Jonathan Broadbent who has won the Clarence Derwent Award for his supporting role as Guy in the Donmar Warehouse’s production of My Night With Reg, has pledged to donate his prize money to ArtsMinds after revealing he had struggled with depression.

Carol Tobin is a comedian and writer. She writes articles on everything from prescription drugs to pilgrimages - here, in Standard Issue, she talks about mindfulness and the difference it has made to her.

Pop star Selena Gomez revealed in her acceptance speech at the American Music Awards how depression left her "absolutely broken inside".

In Bruce Springsteen's new memoir Born to Run he has opened up about his depression and how performing has helped alongside various treatment options. This comment piece from The Conversation discusses why it is important that this disclosure is...

In this article from the Evening Standard performers explain to Jessie Thompson how working in the arts can impact upon their mental health

Mark Lockyer, a leading classical actor who has worked with both the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Globe and the National Theatre and now back with the RSC,  tells of his own battle with mental illness and keeping well.  

Launched in May 2008, BBC Headroom was a two year mental health and wellbeing project which aimed to raise awareness of the importance of good mental health. Ruby Wax  hosted a weekly web-chat covering a range of different mental health and wellbeing...

Actress Carey Mulligan's has been appointed by the Alzheimer's Society and Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt as the UK's first global Dementia Friends Ambassador. Here she talks to the BBC about it  

Stage fright has not been heavily studied, which is strange because it is common not only among those who make their living on the stage but among the rest of us, too. In 2012, two researchers at the University of Nebraska-Omaha,...