Mental Health Language Guide

A new guide has been created to help support more positive conversations and a better understanding of how the words we use can affect people when they’re accessing mental health support.

‘Changing the Language: A Guide to Language for Mental Health’, launched by Sussex Health and Care — a partnership of organisations across Sussex, and including Possability People — has been coproduced by people who are passionate about encouraging more thoughtful and inclusive language. This includes individuals with lived and living experience of mental health challenges, families and carers, experts by experience, and professionals working in health and care services across the region.