#ItAffectsMe: The Selfie Hashtag Raising Money for Mental Illness
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Darrall's video suggested that people join her in a donation campaign to the British mental health charity Mind. To join in all you need to do is write #ItAffectsMe on a post it note, stick on your head then take a selfie. Head over to Mind's website and make a donation then share it across social media (Twitter and Instagram being the most popular places) with the tag, encouraging others to make a donation themselves. It's beautifully simple and having so many people sharing selfies shows that mental illness really does affect so many different people from many different walks of life.
Something else that I feel it's important to point out was that this campaign popped up in exactly the right month. The third Monday of January is known as the most depressing day of the year, or "Blue Monday". Though there may be something to that for some people, for others it's a simple matter of saying the fact it's the third Monday isn't the reason I'm depressed and it'll last longer then a day. The #ItAffectsMe video popped up on the second Monday of January. Exactly a week before this supposedly dreadful day and it's helping prove something. People who shared selfies on Blue Monday wouldn't have just been doing it because it was a bad day. They'd have been affected by their own illness or others for more than one day of a year and it's kind of gross that Blue Monday was a sponsored tag that popped up now and then on the day.
#ItAffectsMe started on the 12th of January and people around the world participated for over a week. This campaign is attempting to reduce the stigma and make money for a charity that is working hard to help so many people. This is what social media was built for and I hope that maybe this does at least something for people dealing with mental health problems.
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#ItAffectsMe: The Selfie Hashtag Raising Money for Mental Illness
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