Mental Health Awareness Week was May 04 to 08. We took it upon ourselves at work to engage awareness amongst ourselves and to spread the word.
Mental illness is something we can't see, therefore as a whole, society chooses to ignore it. It's not easy to ignore someone when they say they have a sore back, or are in a cast, or are fighting cancer.
Here are a couple of facts:
- 1 in 5 Canadians will experience a mental health problem or illness this year.
- Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in Canada.
- 80% of people with depression can recover if they get help.
- There is no good health without mental health
- Silence never helped anyone get better.
(These points were gathered from www.notmyselftoday.ca)
It's important to talk about mental illness, and to educate not only ourselves, but others. There is a lot of stigma attached, and it's up to us to break it.
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1 comment:
It is sad and a bit scary to think that so many suffer from some form of mental illness. You are absolutely right, the more we talk about it the greater the awareness and the bigger the chance of helping more and more people. It becomes a ripple effect.
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