Mental illness is not a marketing campaign

As someone with a family history of mental illness and as someone who came from poverty, I cannot be more emphatic about how we should not be relying on greedy corporations to drive the discussion of mental illness.

Mental illness is a serious and growing societal issue that requires real action from the ground up and should be driven in a communal, democratic fashion. Corporations are not altruistic nor are they democratic. Their actions are 100% driven by their shareholders and are aligned with the goal of increasing profits over anything else.

The #BellLetsTalk movement is nothing but a marketing campaign to distract from Bell's intentions to dismantle net neutrality, continue its high-pressure and deceitful sales tactics, and its insistence to charge far more for services that are inferior to those in most other "developed" countries.

Those of us suffering from mental illness deserve better than being exploited by this terrible company.