Jonny Benjamin MBE
Jonny Benjamin MBE is a mental health campaigner, author, filmmaker, and founder of the charity, Beyond. At the age of 20 he was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, a combinat...
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Who are you?
Hey, I'm Johnny Benjamin. I'm the founder of the Youth Mental Charity Beyond, and in this conversation, you can ask me absolutely anything about suicide prevention.
Have you met Prince William?
I have met Prince William and his wife Catherine, on a number of occasions, and it's amazing to hear their sort of passion when it comes to mental health and suicide prevention. It feels like a course that they're really, really committed to, and it's just great to have people with their profile and influence really invested in both mental health and suicide prevention.
Is mental health awareness needed in schools?
I think schools, colleges, universities needs to be doing a lot more when it comes to mental health, but also, yeah, suicide prevention. The statistic that always really gets me is that over 200 school children take their own lives every single year, which is just, it is just too tragic. That number should be zero. So yeah, schools, colleges, universities, they need to be doing so much more, but it needs to come from the top. It needs to come from government. There's a lot, I think that really needs to change within our education system. A lot that needs to change.