A TikTok video of a man raising awareness of mental health in Harrogate town centre has gone viral.
The clip, by Ben Ogden on Cambridge Street, shows him standing with a sign saying: “If you’ve struggled with mental health, let’s talk”.
Mr Ogden is well known on TikTok for his videos talking to people on the street about mental health and has posted clips in Leeds and Skipton.
In Harrogate, he speaks with a woman, who is off camera, about her struggles with mental health.
Mr Ogden says in the video:
“We’re just trying to raise awareness for mental health and to let people know it’s alright to talk about it and it should be a normal conversation.”
https://www.tiktok.com/@itsbenogden/video/7080554058351758598?_t=8R4AZlarY8M&_r=1
The video has racked up 429,000 views on TikTok and has more than 21,000 likes and 200 comments.
Mr Ogden, who has nearly 50,000 followers on the social media platform, also published a video outside Sainsbury’s on Cambridge Street with a sign that reads: “If you’re missing your mum this Mother’s Day, let’s talk”.
The clip clocked up 465,000 views.
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The video becomes the latest TikTok in the Harrogate district to go viral this year.
In January, a Russian TikToker racked up a million views with a video of Knaresborough that she described as “a place in England so beautiful I can’t believe it’s real”.
In the same month, a bizarre video by DJ Zach Sabri, better known online as SUAT, showed the TikToker being told by National Trust staff that he cannot film at Brimham Rocks.
