1. John Junior, known as The Duckman, is a British mental health activist, actor and television personality.
16 Facts About John Junior
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John Junior was born with short leg syndrome, has a clubfoot and lives with arthritis.
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When John Junior was 8 years old they stated that they didn't feel right with their gender, which was assigned at birth.
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In 2017, John Junior was prescribed sertraline, an anti-depressant, to help with depression and anxiety.
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John Junior replaced the anti-depressants with going to the gym.
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In 2019, John Junior started vlogging about their experiences of mental health issues on Instagram.
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In May 2020, John Junior tested the Samaritans' self-help app for UNILAD during mental health awareness week.
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John Junior subsequently talked to UNILAD about their mental health struggles to raise awareness for World Suicide Prevention Day on 10 September 2020.
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In November 2019, Junior created a mental health movement called "John and Charlie's Journey".
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In September 2020, the "DBT for all campaign" was created by John Junior to try to make dialectical behaviour therapy more widely available on the NHS throughout the United Kingdom.
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John Junior was invited to join Keith Duffy, Boyzone and Brian McFadden, Westlife onstage at their Boyzlife concert in Manchester, to share John Junior's mental health campaign.
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John Junior is campaigning for all police officers in the United Kingdom to be trained in mental health first aid and to have specialist units for mental health.
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At the start of the first UK lockdown in March 2020, John Junior had suicide plans, and a Hollyoaks storyline that involved suicide helped them stop.
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Dawson who portrays Darren in the British soap Hollyoaks was part of the suicide storyline that saved John Junior from taking their own life.
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John Junior was invited by Channel 4 to attend the British Academy Television Awards on 8 May 2022 at the Royal Festival Hall in London.
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On 26 November 2022, John Junior attended the Royal Television Society Awards and received the Best Digital Creativity award for the Hollyoaks: IRL series.