What Is Mental Health Awareness?
Mental health awareness is the ongoing effort to reduce the stigma around mental illness and mental health conditions by sharing our personal experiences. Often, because of misconceptions about mental health and mental fitness, people often suffer in silence and their conditions go untreated.
What is the importance of Mental Health Awareness Month?
Whether or not someone personally suffers with a mental health issue, Mental Health Awareness Month helps people recognize the ways mental illness impacts their lives, educates people about available services, and highlights ways to advocate.
Recognition and education are important ways to remove the stigma associated with mental illness. Mental Health Awareness Month creates a time and space to start a conversation. Talking openly about mental health can reduce the misconceptions and stigma, and can encourage those who are suffering to seek help and find a support network.
How to get involved with mental health awareness?
Take a free mental health awareness
Share information locally
Spread messages of hope to those in need
Take time for your mental health
“Mental health…is not a destination,but a process.It’s about how you drive,not where you’re going.” -Noam Shpancer
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