Mental Health Awareness Week 8-14 May 2017

This week is UK Mental Health Awareness Week 2016, raising awareness of a subject few people want to talk about. So let me ask you to think about the following questions:
1. What do you really know about mental health, and where did you find out about it, film, TV?
2. Do you think YOU have mental health?
3. Can you be physically healthy if you’re not mentally healthy?
4. Did you know more people die by suicide than road traffic accidents?
5. Did you know people can recover from mental illness, including conditions such as Schizophrenia?
6. Did you know many people with mental health problems find the stigma and discrimination more problematic than the mental health problem itself?
7. Direct costs of mental health in England are £22.5 billion a year. Preventing mental health problems through things like raising awareness could reduce this. Can you imagine all the places where this could be re-invested to make a positive difference?
Mental Health Awareness Week is a great opportunity to realise you are not alone (1 in 4 people are affected by mental ill health), it is not a case of ‘them’ and ‘us’. We are all on the spectrum of mental health somewhere, healthy, unwell, or somewhere in between, and we move about this spectrum. People with mental health problems are not “crazy, schizo, or psycho” merely other human beings battling themselves, their biology, and/or the things around them e.g. bereavement, debt, relationship problems, illness, stress, and the multitude of other challenges that life throws at us all.
Mental health problems do not discriminate, you are not immune, and you are certainly not alone. Why not make this week the one to become the person you’d want to be supported by if you became ill with mental health problems…
Find out more at www.mindmatterstraining.co.uk
and https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/campaigns/mental-health-awareness-week