{"id":213476,"date":"2025-10-14T23:39:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T23:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/213476\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T23:39:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T23:39:17","slug":"mental-health-call-sets-new-guinness-world-record-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/213476\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental health call sets new Guinness world record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">A world record has been set after more than 1,400 people took part in a video call to tackle stigma around talking about mental health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Staff and students from a college and businesses in Hull joined in the event to mark World Mental Health Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Guinness World Records confirmed they had broken the record for the most users in a mental health awareness video lesson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Debra Gray, the principal of Hull College, said: &#8220;Mental health matters to all of us, and this initiative highlights how powerful collective action can be in creating positive change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Paul Longley, the founder of Think Mental Health, a training provider that took park, said breaking the record on 10 October was a &#8220;proud moment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">&#8220;When we come together to talk about mental health, we break down barriers and show that no one has to face their struggles alone,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Students from the college were also involved, alongside staff from Smith &amp; Nephew, the medical technology company, and Think Cloud, an IT support firm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Employees joined the call from offices around the world, including the US, Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, India, Italy, Germany and China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">There were 916 verified participants, with more than 1,400 involved at one point, surpassing the previous record of 770. Organisers said it offered a &#8220;shared moment of reflection, learning, and conversation&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A world record has been set after more than 1,400 people took part in a video call to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-213476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}