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Ben's story: walking 1,236 miles for mental health

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On 31 July 2019, Ben Garcia completed a 1,236-mile walk from John o' Groats in Scotland to Land's End in Cornwall. Ben tells us about his amazing mental health journey which took him from the kitchen of a top UK restaurant to a mountain in New Zealand and convinced him to spend three months trekking the length of the UK in support of the Mental Health Foundation.

I have to go a long way back to find where my journey truly began… When I was young, I always felt different from the other kids.

I found school harder than most and was diagnosed with dyslexia at the age of nine. My school years were a difficult time and I had to search for ways to defend myself from the feelings of vulnerability, insecurity and exclusion that came with my

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