Hairmyres Hospital hosted a walk to help change the way people think about mental health.

The Walk a Mile event, arranged by Stigma Free Lanarkshire, brought together staff, patients and the public to help tackle mental health discrimination and break down barriers as they walk a mile in each other’s shoes.

Its aim was to show that mental health can be a topic of everyday conversations and we are all responsible for creating positive attitudes around it.

Susan McMorrin, senior health promotion officer, who helped organise the event, said: “It was great to be part of something which gave everyone the chance to see each other as they really are and not as the labels they may have.

“Mental health affects us all and to tackle this properly, people need to understand that it’s okay not to be okay.”