Below is the text from the opening page of Bryony's survey. You can click straight through to the survey here - or read below, then if you want to start the survey click at the bottom.

Thank you for participating in our survey.

I am Bryony Kimmings a performance artist from London. This summer I am making a new show with my partner Tim. The show is about mental health and men. More specifically living with Severe Clinical Depression.

The show will be a comedy. A way to expose the truths, our fears and lives spent dealing with the disease by allowing us to laugh instead of cry. Through humour it is possible to say the hardest things we have found. We are looking at the still existing taboos.

This is a survey to help us with our research, to see if the things we have experienced are universal and to gather stories. It is anonymous but material may be used in the show as stories and acts. So please only fill in if you are happy for this to happen.

This is for anyone who lives with the disease or knows someone close to them who does. Feel free to leave any of the questions blank and thank you in advance for your honesty and bravery.

You can find out more about my work at www.bryonykimmings.com

If you need any help dealing with or helping someone cope with clinical depression please talk to your GP (if your first attempt doesn’t feel good enough ask to see another doctor, we have had to switch a few times to get it right) or seek initial advice from charities such as MIND www.mind.org.uk and Depression UK www.depressionuk.org

Thank you and we love you for your honesty.

Bry and Tim xx

Take the survey here