Caroline O'Donoghue: Five things to remember about everyone's mental health

"This time, it’s not about our own personal mental health. It’s everybody else’s."

There’s a cliche in the mental health community, and it is the phrase ‘we need to talk about mental health’. 

Every few years some government body issues a statement on how we all need to talk more about how we’re feeling, and by that, they specifically mean that they want men over 50 to stutter and announce to their best mate Jerry over a pint that they’ve been ‘feeling a bit down, lately’.