Each year in the UK, at least one in four people experiences a mental health problem. 1 When faced with a mental health illness, we often hear the words 'it helps to talk about it'. The tool of communication in Deaf individuals makes it so that 'talking' takes a different format in order to convey thought. Various misconceptions about Deafness and the obstacles faced to access mental health services must then be conceptualised differently.
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