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This Year TELL Aims to “Shatter Stigma”

If you don’t know someone with a mental health problem, you’re simply not paying attention. All of us have friends and family members and colleagues who have been depressed, struggled with grief or an eating disorder or a learning problem, or have died by suicide. Globally, one in four people will experience a mental health […]

This Year TELL Aims to Shatter Stigma

If you don’t know someone with a mental health problem, you’re simply not paying attention. All of us have friends and family members and colleagues who have been depressed, struggled with grief or an eating disorder or a learning problem, or have died by suicide. Globally, one in four people will experience a mental health […]

Busy as a Bee is Ben Beesley

Ben Beesley, TELL’s Events & Communications Coordinator, is from Tunbridge Wells, UK, a spa town an hour south of London.

Sign Up for TELL’s Charity Walk & Run 2016

The 17th edition of the TELL Charity Walk & Run will take place at the Tama River (Tamagawa) running course on Saturday, May 28th, and this year the focus of the event will be stigma. 

The Kumamoto Earthquakes and their Psychological Impact

Once things begin to return to normal following an earthquake or other disaster, many people feel anxious, or find their sleeping or eating patterns disrupted. It’s completely normal to be “not fine”. It’s completely okay to reach out for help.

A Call for Stories

Tokyo-based musician, actor, and writer Martin Leroux is writing a play that focuses on the themes of mental health, depression, suicide, and isolation, which he hopes to put on the stage in Tokyo in late 2016 or early 2017. To write the script, Martin is collecting stories from people who have had direct or indirect […]

Yukari Koga Counts and TELL Counts on Her 

Financial Controller Yukari Koga was born in downtown Tokyo, in a neighborhood near Asakusa called Ryogkoku, famous for its sumo stadium and the giant sumo wrestlers who walk the streets.