Why You Need To Grab Your Wallet! Please Donate
Please dig as deep as you can....and really, you get to pay me for being SILENT! One Love xx
Please help where you can...
In order to raise funds for mental health charity 20Talk, I'm going to take on the challenge of sitting in a 2 metre square box for 20 hours with no technology and no talking. This challenge will be a small look into the day of someone struggling with mental health. All I will have is my own thoughts, a journal and a chair to sit on.
So why am I doing this?
We have all been touched in some way or another by the reality of mental health. It can be dark, lonely, and confronting.
Structurally, the statistics are still alarming..
- Suicide still remains the leading cause of death for young people aged 15-44.
- Only 2% of mental health funding goes towards prevention (Mental Health Commission 2022)
I'm completing the 20 Hours for 20Talk to turn these statistics around. Your contribution goes towards 20Talk's relatable prevention campaigns. They are a mental health charity that makes education cool and accessible, for young people by young people.
Your generous donations go towards:
- Every $120 puts a young person through a one day Mental Health Maintenance cours
- Expanding 20Talk's online resources and 60,000+ social media community
- Running large-scale interactive mental health events
By improving mental health literacy, removing harmful stigma, and encouraging professional help-seeking we are preventing people from getting people into crisis in the first place.
Thank you for taking the time to read this post and for donating to the cause. Hopefully this small challenge can help change someone’s life.
If you ever need to chat, I’m always here. Love you all and thanks again!
Thank you to my Sponsors
$520
Hag Import Corp
$126.62
Brian & Catherine
Stay in the box
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Diane Travis
Sending love and encouragement!
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Mastercorp
Oh to have 20 uninterrupted hours! Have fun
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Anonymous
$54.12
Anonymous
Go get 'em Paul!
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Jeff Zehr
Thank you, Paul, for raising money for this very important cause! I lost my brother to suicide, when he was 20 and I was 12.
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Peter French
No talking for 20 hours? You don't say?
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Rain Perry
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Chris Proust
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Jenny Feltham
An important cause! Thanks for taking on the challenge, Bushman. Wishing you luck and interested to hear where the silent introspection takes you. Jen xx
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Pattie
Thank you for doing this PB! And, for the reminder. Love you to pieces!! PB
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Pwb
Let's get this thing started....please dig as deep as you can....
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Dan Grundmann
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Gretalou
Happy pondering UP xx
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Stanley Morris
Good on you mate!
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David
worth it to shut you up for 20 hours! :)
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Phil
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Cara Busch
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Georgia
❤️
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Jennifer Thompson
Good luck.
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Kristi Beattie
Great cause and great effort Paul. Well done!!
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Joel Patraker
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Tony Hughes
Kurt Vonnegut // "My Uncle…taught me something very important. He said that when things are going really well we should be sure to notice it. He was talking about very simple occasions, not great victories. Maybe drinking lemonade under a shade tree, or smelling the aroma of a bakery, or fishing, or listening to music coming from a concert hall while standing in the dark outside, or, dare I say, after a kiss. He told me that it was important at such times to say out loud, 'If this isn’t nice, what is?'"
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Carmine Costantini
Hope you get better soon
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Ian Bart
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Anonymous
Keep swimming👍
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Doreen Mcguire
Good on ya, Paul! Thank you. xo
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Jan Balletta
It's going to be tough! Talk 20 is a valid campaign Shut up💕
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James Sheringham
$20
Anonymous
Great initiative PB. Enjoy the contemplation time! Toni x
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Daniella Hogarth
Brilliant effort and well done!
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