Join Action Duchenne as we support Mental Health Awareness Week 2025, running from 12th – 18th May. This year, the theme is “community” and all week we’ll be opening up conversations about the ways we can find strength within the Duchenne community. Creating spaces, either virtual or in-person, for our community to come together is a central part of the work we do.
We’d love you to share your experiences, or just find out more about how we can support you, your family, and your mental wellbeing. Contact us on info@actionduchenne.org
To begin the week, our Partnerships and Outreach Manager Alex Berbank share his thoughts on the complex topic of male mental health through both personal experience and through his role in supporting Duchenne dads. We’ve also recorded this blog so there’s an option to listen to the audio version.
Alex’s Mental Health Awareness Week Journal
Alex has decided to use this week as inspiration to share his own insights and personal experience of mental health with a daily journal.
“Today sparks the start of world mental health awareness week and this year’s theme is community. So I’ve decided to share a journal about mental health for the week. To be part of the community of us that talk about it. Talking about our mental health doesn’t mean you find your own mental health is at crisis point or has something you could diagnose. We all need to get better at talking about our mental health. I am however equally interested and apprehensive about what may come about. It feels vulnerable and difficult to do this and there is a large part of me that wants to email Lizzie our comms officer and explain this is all a big mistake, but this is the point of weeks like this. Nothing changes if nothing changes and I don’t want to be someone that wont take their own advice. So buckle up and let’s get going.“
