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Mental Ideas Awards

The annual Mental Ideas Awards reward and recognize individual social entrepreneurs and non-profit organizations offering creative solutions to mental health issues. The objective is to create and support the next generation of social enterprise … Continue Reading Mental Ideas Awards

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Animals & Nature Collection by Artist Jade Bryant

Jade Bryant is a talented young artist and Mental Ideas Ambassador from Devon, UK. She practices art as self-help therapy to alleviate the stress of her borderline personality disorder and … Continue Reading Animals & Nature Collection by Artist Jade Bryant

Mental Disorders Depicted With Minimalist Posters by Graphic Designer Patrick Smith

It’s not always easy to capture the seriousness of conditions such as obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) or depression in a simple way. Graphic designer Patrick Smith took on the challenge. … Continue Reading Mental Disorders Depicted With Minimalist Posters by Graphic Designer Patrick Smith

Featured Artist: Mat Ricardo

Meet Mat Ricardo: Mental Ideas Ambassador & Showman Extraordinaire! Fast Hands. Smart Mouth. Nice Suit. The Gentleman Juggler, leading speciality act of the British Cabaret Revival and the UK’s most … Continue Reading Featured Artist: Mat Ricardo

My Life Asleep – Sadie Kaye

Ever since I was a teenager, for periods of months at a time, I have led an exhausting double life: My Life Awake and My Life Asleep. One of my … Continue Reading My Life Asleep – Sadie Kaye

Exhibitions & Events

Mental Ideas produces and delivers many different kinds of events, including exhibitions for our most promising artists. We collaborate with galleries in Hong Kong, Singapore, New York, Paris & London. We organize … Continue Reading Exhibitions & Events

Projects

Mental Ideas provides access to arts, film and media opportunities for artists coping with “invisible” mental health issues, directly and indirectly. Our projects enrich and assist recovery from mental illness by … Continue Reading Projects

Mental Ideas Loves… Cook For Syria

Serena Guen is the founder and CEO of Suitcase Group. Clerkenwell Boy is a strategy consultant and anonymous food influencer. In 2016 they co-founded #CookForSyria – the supper club that … Continue Reading Mental Ideas Loves… Cook For Syria

Support Groups: Bipolar Hong Kong

Bipolar Hong Kong is Hong Kong’s first peer-led bipolar support group. Founded by Sadie Kaye in 2014, it’s grown into a collective of Hong Kong-based professionals, students, writers and artists … Continue Reading Support Groups: Bipolar Hong Kong

Bipolar Express on RTHK

Bipolar Express is an irreverent 30-minute roller coaster through the euphoric highs and debilitating lows of the bipolar mind. Produced and presented for RTHK Radio 3 by Sadie Kaye, guests include … Continue Reading Bipolar Express on RTHK

Submissions

We accept original artwork, op-eds, short stories (fiction), poetry, music, humour, podcasts and films around the year. What Mental Ideas Loves – Provocative Theories based on self-research (always citing original … Continue Reading Submissions

Ambassador Mat Ricardo’s First Column!

Like many of us, I felt the bruises of my mental health issues before I could put a name to what was throwing the punches. Occasionally, when I was at … Continue Reading Ambassador Mat Ricardo’s First Column!

Ruby Wax – What’s So Funny About Mental Illness?