Bingo.  As someone who has lived with depression, anxiety and occasional panic attacks over the last ten years, I have hated this campaign since day one.  Charlie described it perfectly, and that's how it has always been for this bottom-of-the-barrel, piece of garbage conglomerate that does this country absolutely no good.  Running this campaign this year is completely inappropriate and then some, especially given how so many of us in Ontario are reaching absolute rock bottom due to current events and are bound to totally explode upon the smallest trigger.

Seriously, if Bell is once again going to talk the talk and not actually walk the walk, this whole nightmare of a campaign will be a massive slap in the face for every Canadian who lives with any mental illness or mood disorder.  Same if anybody takes to social media and parrots Bell's messages - if you share the hashtag or any of their Facebook material etc., you are also a virtue-signalling hypocrite and fail to realize how insulting your (and Bell's) empty/meaningless messages are to the 20% or more of us in Canada who live with illnesses such as depression, anxiety disorders, panic disorders, bipolar, schizophrenia, and so on.

If this corporation truly and genuinely gave a rat's arse about the mental health and well-being of all of us, especially their staff, I would expect that they would a) not fire experienced media professionals simply because they're paid too much, and b) fork over a hell of a lot more MH funding than the drop in the bucket that's allotted each year.  A few million bucks a year (that probably has all kinds of conditions and quid pro quo attached to it) won't do a damn thing for Canada's mental health services which, like the rest of our healthcare system, are collapsing around us - they need literally billions of dollars in funding to get anywhere near being able to sufficiently serve the rising number of clients/patients of all ages who need MH care.

On January 26th, I'm sure as heck not talking about this.  You shouldn't either.

Hey Forward Power, you are not alone. 

Forward Power wrote:

Bingo.  As someone who has lived with depression, anxiety and occasional panic attacks over the last ten years, I have hated this campaign since day one.  Charlie described it perfectly, and that's how it has always been for this bottom-of-the-barrel, piece of garbage conglomerate that does this country absolutely no good.  Running this campaign this year is completely inappropriate and then some, especially given how so many of us in Ontario are reaching absolute rock bottom due to current events and are bound to totally explode upon the smallest trigger.

Seriously, if Bell is once again going to talk the talk and not actually walk the walk, this whole nightmare of a campaign will be a massive slap in the face for every Canadian who lives with any mental illness or mood disorder.  Same if anybody takes to social media and parrots Bell's messages - if you share the hashtag or any of their Facebook material etc., you are also a virtue-signalling hypocrite and fail to realize how insulting your (and Bell's) empty/meaningless messages are to the 20% or more of us in Canada who live with illnesses such as depression, anxiety disorders, panic disorders, bipolar, schizophrenia, and so on.

If this corporation truly and genuinely gave a rat's arse about the mental health and well-being of all of us, especially their staff, I would expect that they would a) not fire experienced media professionals simply because they're paid too much, and b) fork over a hell of a lot more MH funding than the drop in the bucket that's allotted each year.  A few million bucks a year (that probably has all kinds of conditions and quid pro quo attached to it) won't do a damn thing for Canada's mental health services which, like the rest of our healthcare system, are collapsing around us - they need literally billions of dollars in funding to get anywhere near being able to sufficiently serve the rising number of clients/patients of all ages who need MH care.

On January 26th, I'm sure as heck not talking about this.  You shouldn't either.