Jonny Benjamin is an award-winning mental health campaigner, film producer, public speaker, writer and vlogger from London. In the Queen’s 2017 New Year Honors List, Jonny has been awarded an MBE for his services to mental health and suicide prevention.

At the age of 20 he was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, a combination of schizophrenia and bipolar, and later began making films on YouTube about the condition that have since been watched by hundreds of thousands of people.

Jonny now speaks publicly about living with mental illness and has written articles and given various interviews on TV, Radio and in print around the world to help educate and break stigma.

Jonny began making films about mental health in 2010, initially by vlogging on his YouTube channel, before creating and presenting a BBC Three documentary in 2013 for their mental health season, It’s A Mad World. In 2015 he became a producer at Postcard Productions and helped to make the acclaimed Channel 4 documentary The Stranger On The Bridge which is available to watch online.

Jonny continues to vlog on YouTube. His videos have been watched by over half a million people whilst being shared on social media by the likes of Stephen Fry and being used as an educational tool in schools and universities.

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