Can social media be used to spread positive messages encouraging mental health awareness? In the first of this five-part special, Katie asks mental health campaigners, young people and researchers their views on using the platform for mental health promotion.

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Featuring

• Johnny Benjamin MBE, award-winning mental health campaigner, film producer, public speaker, writer and vlogger. His 2014 social media campaign with Rethink Mental Illness to #findMike, the man who talked him out of jumping off a bridge when he was suicidal, went viral and led to Jonny becoming a prominent spokesperson on the subject of suicide.

• Cheryl Adamson-Crete & Adeleye Temilade, Plugging In Young Advisors

• Molly Davies, PhD student on the Genetic Links to Depression & Anxiety study (run by Prof Thalia Eley & Dr Gerome Breen)

• Tilly Minchin, Liv Yeadon-Rae, George Maple & Elizabeth Lee, Placement students at King's College London

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Trigger warnings

Please note that this episode makes references to suicide.