This year Time To Change launched a huge awareness campaign about Mental Health. They are trying to challenge the stigma that people encounter when they open up about their mental health issues.
Fact is we all know someone with a mental health problem, we may be someone with a mental health problem.
It could be depression, OCD, bipolar disorder, or even an eating disorder. You could be someone who self harms to cope, or has thoughts about suicide. You could be someone who can't leave the house without having a panic attack.
It affects one in four people – so you either know or are someone who has been dealing with some form of mental illness. To raise awareness, the notorious Eat Your Heart Out curated by Miss Cakehead, are opening The Depressed Cake Shop.
EYHO have been turning stomachs (and baking anatomically correct ones too) since Miss Cakehead opened the iCake pop up shop in tribute to Steve Jobs' passing, and the Wesker & Sons human butchery to mark the launch of the latest Resident Evil game. Since then her amazing food artists have gone on to raise awareness of sexual health with STD cakes, and all manner of medical conditions at the Pathology Museum in London.
It's hard to talk, never mind think about the dark side of mental health. So to that end, bakers from all over the country are creating confections that aren't quite up to scratch. Cakes that don't feel quite right today. Cupcakes that don't have the strength to get out of bed in the morning.
By showing on the outside how mental health can affect us on the inside, The Depressed Cake Shop will not only raise money for Time To Change – but raise awareness too.
The Depressed Cake Shop will launch later this year.
Top photo, Miss Cakehead. Mid photo, Conjures Kitchen
-JULIE
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