What Did #BellLetsTalkDay Do For The Mental Health Of The World
#bellletsdtalkday has become the second-largest Mental Help day in Canada.
In 24 hours, it created a total of 154,387,425 interactions across the major social media platforms.
These interactions focused on opening up the conversation around mental health, and for every social media hashtag or specific filter used, Bell donated 5c to Canadian mental health.
$7,719,371.25 Was raised.
That is a massive day of conversation and charity!
Yet as I sit here writing this, I have one hand on my phone scrolling through my twitter feed, and there is not a mental health tweet to be seen.
So what did it really do?
How does Bell Lets Talk Day move us forward as a society?
Any conversation that steps into the discussion of mental health is a positive thing. The biggest problem with society is we have allowed these conversations to become “odd” to hear.
The more normal these interactions become then the better we all will be.
“I’m sorry I need to cancel out dinner date, my anxiety is through the roof, and this first meeting with you is making it too much.”
Then we as a civilization are starting to win.
But when does speaking start becoming trendy?
How do we turn tweeting into action?
Without actions to help those in need, can we move forward?
I am honestly asking you this because I do not know.
Seven million dollars put towards the system that has been set up for ages to help those who need is 100% a positive outcome for the day.
But maybe… is there a system that needs to be created to help us who suffer in this new age of culture and social media.
