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Sharing Experience - Raising Awareness - Challenging Discrimination

Welcome to Open Up, where people with experience of mental distress come together to challenge discrimination.

Open Up is run by Mind and is part of Time to Change.

Latest news

  • Important Changes Coming Soon
    Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 15:52

    Important information for all Open-Up users: we will soon be making some key changes to this website.

    The main part of these changes will involve removing all existing discussion groups and replacing them with new ones. We have had some great content posted on the site since it started, but we are hoping that by creating new groups we will be able to encourage more discussion on this area of the site.

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  • IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FOR ALL OPEN-UP.ORG.UK USERS!
    Tuesday, January 13, 2009 - 12:00

    We have changed our privacy settings to give you more control over the information you give out on this site.

    From now on, everyone who has a profile on www.open-up.org.uk can choose who sees the details they reveal on their pages. Each time you enter a category in your profile, e.g. name, email address, phone number, you will now be asked to choose how visible you would like it to be. The choices available to you are as follows:

  • Time to Change Campaign Launch
    Tuesday, January 13, 2009 - 11:40

    On 21 January, Time to Change is launching its first national marketing campaign across England. This is the first campaign of its kind in England, and a big step towards ending mental health discrimination. 

    What's happening?

    There’s going to be a month of activity aimed at tackling discrimination around mental health problems, including;