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'If it weren't for a peanut M&M, I would never have discovered my brain tumour.'

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'I don't cover up the scars from my cancer. But I felt shame about my mental illness.'

MEL GREIG: 'To everyone who answered no when asked "RUOK?" yesterday.'

In 2009, Gavin Larkin created R U OK? Day. Three years later, he died from bone cancer.

'I remember the terrified look.' Exactly what it's like to experience a psychotic episode.

"Which clothes will be safest? None will be safest. I know that." This is my brain on OCD.

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'I was so sick I needed a post-it note to remember to pick up my baby.'

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