DAY TWO: YOUR SUPPORT SYSTEM | 5 THINGS TO TAKE ACTION WITH | MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK 2026

“Distance yourself from negative people who try to lower your motivation and decrease your ambition. Create space for positive people to come into your life. Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.”

Roy T. Bennett

Welcome to Day Two of the Mental Health Awareness Week (MHAW) series; 5 Things to Take Action With. Today, I’m going to provide a number of resources to help you to take action on any issues regarding your support system…

DAY ONE: LAUNCHING 5 THINGS TO ‘TAKE ACTION’ WITH | MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK 2026

“If you want to get positive results you have to refuse to think negative thoughts by substituting them with constructive ones. When you develop a positive attitude toward life, your life will start having a positive result.”

Roy T. Bennett

Mental Health Awareness Week (MHAW) kind of came out of nowhere for me this year and it was literally just on the 6^th May that I spotted it as a post on the Mind Instagram account (@MindCharity with the specific post I’m referring to being this one!)! So, I managed to find the theme this year is ‘Take Action’, and I worked that into seven blog posts with this first one being the launch for the Series, the following five each being a different thing that can be important to your mental health that you can take action with, and the seventh being a re-cap. I hope the content this Week is somewhat up to scratch for you all despite my lack of preparation and creation time(!), now let’s kick things off with more on MHAW and why both the Week and this Series, matter…

THE EMOTIONAL JOURNEY OF CREATING A SERIES OF CONTENT | IN COLLABORATION WITH GRACIE’S WAY | DYING MATTERS AWARENESS WEEK 2026

“I can't relax. I'm not happy unless I'm working on stuff…” 

Fred Armisen

So, I used Chat GPT to check for additional ideas on what I should be including in an article titled ‘Series Re-Cap’ for the Gracie’s Way’s website (www.graciesway.co.uk) that I was intending to use to basically wrap-up the week-long Series of content on there – and on the project’s Instagram (@GraciesWayUK) – for Dying Matters Awareness Week 2026. For numerous reasons (which will all be explained in that re-cap post on May 10^th!) I decided that this Awareness occasion was the right one to be the first one for Gracie’s Way to publish a Series of content in response to it. And amongst the Chat GPT response to my prompt, it actually advised that I include some words on the emotional journey of creating a Series of content. I began writing hat section in the Re-Cap article when I had the thought ‘this could be an entire blog post!’ So, here it is…

A Q&A WITH ME AS MAID OF HONOUR | THE WEDDING OF TWO OF MY BEST-FRIENDS; THE NEW MR AND MR WILSON!!!

“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.”

Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

I sort of built this day up a bit on the blog with a previous piece about the pre-wedding party: A TREASURE TROVE BLOG POST: MAID OF HONOUR INSIGHT INTO THE BEST-FRIEND’S PRE-WEDDING WARM-UP!!! | IN COLLABORATION WITH TURTLE BAY NEWCASTLE | I'm NOT Disordered. Then, this blog post was written ahead of time so that I could still publish it on the weekend of the Wedding (it was on Saturday April 18^th) without having to write it then too! But, on writing this, the plan is to likely put this up on the Sunday because the after-party finishes at midnight on Saturday night and I obviously want to add all – or some (depending on how many I take!) – photos and videos etc to the post! And, in case anyone is wondering, I take absolutely no credit for the questions in this piece – it was literally all Chat GPT! I honestly just loved them so much and enjoyed that I purely had to answer them(!)…

THE ULTIMATE Q&A WITH A RAPE AND ABUSE SURVIVOR FOR THE SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS MONTH'S DAY OF ACTION 2026

After everything you've done
I can thank you for how strong I have become

'Cause you brought the flames and you put me through hell
I had to learn how to fight for myself
And we both know all the truth I could tell

Ke$ha – Praying

In a huge and random scrolling session on Instagram, I came across a post about Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) 2026 by an Actress (Sasha Pieterse from Pretty Little Liars) – which you can view here – that I shared to my Stories (@aimes_wilson). A while later, my best-friend and fellow Blogger; Martin Baker of www.gumonmyshoe.com messaged and said that it had inspired him to look back at his guest post for a project I was doing back in 2024 about supporting a survivor of sexual violence – you can read it on his blog (the project’s website it was originally published on was deleted): I Believe You. It wasn't Your Fault. You Are not Alone. Being There for a Friend Who's Survived Rape or Sexual Abuse. And from that, I began to consider ideas for creating I’m NOT Disordered content about the topic/for the awareness Month, and I came up with the idea of a Q&A. Finally, just three little side notes: Firstly, the questions below were all created by AI (Chat GPT specifically). Secondly, please be responsible when reading this post in terms of being triggered by this content and using safe coping skills. Finally, if you’re struggling with the topics discussed in this post/regarding this awareness Month, please see this old blog post which includes a ton of helpline contact details and supportive information: JOIN A RAPE & ABUSE SURVIVOR AT A HUGE GYNAE APPOINTMENT | VLOG & A COLLABORATION WITH AMAZON UK INCLUDED! | I'm NOT Disordered. Without further-ado, for the SAAM’s Day of Action, here’s the Q&A…