Robyn Fielding, Founder of Mental Health Singles

Why Mental Health Singles exists

Robyn spent more than a decade in peer support and mental health charity work before she built anything. She heard the same thing from person after person: dating felt impossible. Not because of their condition, but because of one moment. The pause before you mention the medication. The worry about how a new person will react to the word "bipolar" or "OCD" or "PTSD". The exhausting arithmetic of when to disclose and how much to say.

So she built the site that would take that conversation off the table. On Mental Health Singles, everyone is here for the same reason, which means the disclosure is already done by the time you say hello. You start a few steps further in, as a person rather than a diagnosis.

"I spent thirteen years watching brilliant people decide they weren't dateable because of one conversation. The site exists so that conversation is already over before you arrive."

Robyn Fielding

Background

Before founding the platform in 2020, Robyn worked in peer support and at mental health charities, mostly across the South West of England. That work shaped the whole tone of the brand. She is allergic to the language of leaflets and the inspirational-poster version of mental health. People are not their conditions, and they are not problems to be fixed. They are people who would like to meet someone.

She is open about living with a generalised anxiety disorder herself. She mentions it the way you would mention being left-handed: a fact, not a confession.

What the brand is, and is not

Mental Health Singles is a dating community. It is not therapy, not a crisis line, and not a substitute for professional support. Where someone is struggling, the site signposts gently to real help rather than pretending to be that help. Robyn is firm about this line, because getting it wrong would be worse than not trying.

She does not write a regular column. This page is the canonical place for her voice on the brand. The blog is carried by a small pool of writers, some with lived experience of their own.

What you will not see her do

• Treat members' diagnoses as content or inspiration material.
• Make medical or clinical claims. That work is signposted to professionals.
• Use the founder page for advocacy or politics. The brand is dating, not campaigning.