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Bring Change 2 Mind is a non-profit established by Glenn Close to raise awareness for mental illness.

The organization has launched a PSA campaign, #StrongerThanStigma, in conjunction with non-profit Project 375, to encourage men to normalize conversations around mental health. The campaign features men like athletes Brandon Marshall and Ben Scrivens, actor Wayne Brady, and Passion Pit frontman Michael Angelakos discussing the stigma around mental illness.

Michael Angelakos is a singer-songwriter, composer, record producer and the front man of the indietronica band Passion Pit. In the summer of 2012, after Passion Pit’s second studio album, Gossamer, debuted at number four on the Billboard 200 chart, Michael posted on the band’s website that they would be cancelling their upcoming tour dates so that he could continue to work on his mental health. After years of hospitalizations and medications, Michael had publicly acknowledged that he lives with Bipolar Disorder. The support that Michael received in response to his honesty and transparency inspired him to use his publicity to humanize the concept of mental illness and to advocate that it is treated as any other health concern. Michael is currently working on Passion Pit’s third album, which is to be released in 2015.