However, while schools wait for the introduction and effects of this funding, help is needed now for college students across the country. Find out how to help college students with mental health issues in this blog, with 4 actionable strategies you can put in place to help alleviate mental he...
Although mental health and mental illness are often used interchangeably, there is a distinctive difference between them. Both need to be handled in the workplace with equal levels of respect and understanding, and in many cases, both are manageable for a person in order to perform as well as...
Firstly, it can launch several programs or projects to raise people’s awareness of the importance of their mental health. This may help change the reality that too many people take their mental and emotional health for granted—focusing on it only when they develop problems. But just as it ...
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, an important time to bring attention to mental health’s impact on individuals, families, and communities. While mental health issues affect millions of people, there is still a stigma surrounding seeking help for these concerns. This stigma can prevent ...
For all their good intentions, campaigns intended to raise awareness are leading some people toconflate normal responses to life’s difficulties with mental-health disorders. Special treatment creates incentives for people to seek diagnoses and to medicalise problems unnecessarily. The need to treat peo...
Why Is Mental Health Month Important? Mental health issues are still widely misunderstood and stigmatized in our society – especially in the workplace. Mental Health Awareness Month aims to bring these issues to the forefront, raise funds and awareness, and break down the stigma around discussing...
and fostering an open and stigma-free environment, you can become a trusted ally in their path towardhealing from depressionand other mental health conditions. As we continue to raise mental health awareness, let’s not underestimate the power of compassion, love, and understanding in helping thos...
World Mental Health Day (WMHD) is observed on 10 October every year, with the objective to raise awareness and understanding of mental health issues around the world and mobilizing efforts in support of better mental health. This year, the theme is Young People and Mental Health in a Changing...
Every year, the month of May is observed as Mental Health Awareness Month in the United States, an outreach initiative founded in 1949 by Mental Health America—previously known as the National Association for Mental Health. The initiative was designed to create public awareness, fight stigma ...
endurance swimming record by completing a distance of 50,575 m underwater on a breath hold, with no propulsive assistance. The distance was swum as 2,023 underwater laps of a 25 m pool in Nassau, Bahamas. He did it to raise awareness about the mental health crisis facing t...