Make sure you get on your Bell texts and calls, 5 cents from each one of them is donated to mental health.
I think especially this year, a focus on mental health is crucial as we live in these unusual and stress full times. Maybe reach out to someone you know, or someone that you haven't talked to for a while, or someone that you're worried about that's going through a tough situation.
Its a shame that we couldn't get bell to donate 5 cents for every post today on Calgarypuck, we'd raise millions on the game thread.
Be good to each other.
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When you're talking to your friends, if they say something in a throw away comment, that doesn't sound right, its ok to ask them about it or talk to them about it.
In the last day, I've had two friends throw out suicide jokes, that they were "Just kidding about".
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When you're talking to your friends, if they say something in a throw away comment, that doesn't sound right, its ok to ask them about it or talk to them about it.
In the last day, I've had two friends throw out suicide jokes, that they were "Just kidding about".
I agree. Sometimes those tiny comments buried within bigger communication can get missed. If you see those, ask and let them know you're here for them if they need to talk.
I think/hope we can move away from the marketing side of this soon and have a general Let’s Talk day, or whatever we want to call it. It’s a great thing Bell did, but at this point it’s become an advertisement for the money they are going to donate to charity anyway, and making others responsible for the amount of that money by qualifying it with use of their service.
Just donate the money.
Support mental health.
Outside if today, call or text your friends and family members regularly. Reach out to see what’s going on. Don’t wait for one day a year and don’t worry about whether you’re on Bell, call ‘em up. Because sometimes people can feel alone and abandoned with no one to turn to, and the difference between that and feeling love and support, might be the call or text you keep meaning to make, but never get around to.
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Our family is going through a rough patch with this issue... and yes it's hard to talk even WITHIN the family about it, and much harder on more outer spheres.
Today I'm looking on LinkedIn and just generally on various other web pages. At first I was thinking, phew this is good timing to see this support... then I realized/felt it was more advertising and attention seeking. At least that's how it felt from my position of needing support.
I think/hope we can move away from the marketing side of this soon and have a general Let’s Talk day, or whatever we want to call it. It’s a great thing Bell did, but at this point it’s become an advertisement for the money they are going to donate to charity anyway
Yeah, this is pretty spot on.
With regard to CC's post above, I'll say that of the things you might pick up on talking to people with mental illness, two of note are a general penchant for gallows humour (you might be able to guess why) and a general disdain for Bell Let's Talk day.
The view from some quarters goes, great, well done, raise money for an important cause. But the day itself is sort of like if Black History Month was instead just called "FedEx Deliver Racial Equality month", or Pride was instead called "Taste The Rainbow of Progress month, presented by Skittles". And while I'm not saying that everyone feels that way (just as I know there are a range of opinions in the gay community about the current role of Pride and the commercialization of those events), the ironic thing about this one is that for the most part, the people who feel this way generally do not want to get into it and are more inclined to just shut up and let the day happen. So that conversation doesn't really seem to get a lot of air.
Equally (or maybe more) importantly as the superficial, focus-group-ish commercialization of the whole thing, the other reality is that this is one of the more alienating days of the year from the perspective of a lot of people who struggle with mental illness, because of what the rest of the population tends to take it to be all about. I mean, sure, it's great that workplaces are holding seminars about how tough it's been to get through the COVID lockdowns, and how stress can sometimes lead you down a negative spiral. Those are important things to shine a light on and deal with, and people should talk about their experiences with those issues and how to cope with them. But it also has a ring of the general population of well-to-do upper middle class people talking about how hard things are for them while patting themselves on the back for how understanding and inclusive they are... that the whole thing is really about them. And it probably is about them, because as noted, this is at its core a marketing campaign. And then the day's done and no one has to think about it the rest of the year, having performed their slacktivist duty by posting something on facebook declaring how they "know how tough it is right now" because they "feel that way too sometimes" and they're "here to talk if anyone needs to".
Not to be a downer or to suggest that this is on the whole not a good thing for Bell to be doing, because it clearly is. But yeah. There are some... concerns... about the whole enterprise.
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With regard to CC's post above, I'll say that of the things you might pick up on talking to people with mental illness, two of note are a general penchant for gallows humour (you might be able to guess why) and a general disdain for Bell Let's Talk day.
The view from some quarters goes, great, well done, raise money for an important cause. But the day itself is sort of like if Black History Month was instead just called "FedEx Deliver Racial Equality month", or Pride was instead called "Taste The Rainbow of Progress month, presented by Skittles". And while I'm not saying that everyone feels that way (just as I know there are a range of opinions in the gay community about the current role of Pride and the commercialization of those events), the ironic thing about this one is that for the most part, the people who feel this way generally do not want to get into it and are more inclined to just shut up and let the day happen. So that conversation doesn't really seem to get a lot of air.
Equally (or maybe more) importantly as the superficial, focus-group-ish commercialization of the whole thing, the other reality is that this is one of the more alienating days of the year from the perspective of a lot of people who struggle with mental illness, because of what the rest of the population tends to take it to be all about. I mean, sure, it's great that workplaces are holding seminars about how tough it's been to get through the COVID lockdowns, and how stress can sometimes lead you down a negative spiral. Those are important things to shine a light on and deal with, and people should talk about their experiences with those issues and how to cope with them. But it also has a ring of the general population of well-to-do upper middle class people talking about how hard things are for them while patting themselves on the back for how understanding and inclusive they are... that the whole thing is really about them. And it probably is about them, because as noted, this is at its core a marketing campaign. And then the day's done and no one has to think about it the rest of the year, having performed their slacktivist duty by posting something on facebook declaring how they "know how tough it is right now" because they "feel that way too sometimes" and they're "here to talk if anyone needs to".
Not to be a downer or to suggest that this is on the whole not a good thing for Bell to be doing, because it clearly is. But yeah. There are some... concerns... about the whole enterprise.
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I think/hope we can move away from the marketing side of this soon and have a general Let’s Talk day, or whatever we want to call it. It’s a great thing Bell did, but at this point it’s become an advertisement for the money they are going to donate to charity anyway, and making others responsible for the amount of that money by qualifying it with use of their service.
Just donate the money.
Support mental health.
Dude, it is a marketing campaign. There's no marketing side. The whole thing is the marketing side. It's now part of their brand. As far as marketing campaigns go, it is great because it has the side effect of actually helping people (I assume).
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