The 10th of October is World Mental Health Awareness Day. This day aims to raise awareness, increasing peoples understanding of mental health issues and those who suffer from them. This annual worldwide day also encourages us to look available services including the treatment and prevention.
This awareness day is supported by the United Nations and currently over 100 countries acknowledge the day and run related events and activities.
Mental Health
This year, a main theme of the awareness day is to get people talking about how they are feeling. Encouraging individuals to talk can help maintain good health and well being. Talking about problems you are experiencing can make you feel like you have support around you and allow you to cope better with certain situations. Across the globe it is estimated that one in every four suffers from mental ill health (that's almost 12 percent off the worlds population) which can range from anything from depression to stress at work.
In the UK alone a recent study found that stress at work is now worse than ever. Last year 8 percent of the population left a job due to stress and more than 1 in 10 workers felt they had insufficient support from their managers.
The situation has undoubtedly been worsened by the recession with people working longer, harder hours to keep up with the added pressure that now comes with many jobs.
The cost of unemployment and absence from work due to mental health related issues costs our economy over 30 billion a year.
New research has shown that, in England, the total cost of mental health has risen from 28 billion to over 105 billion and treating mental health problems costs the NHS and social care organisations over 21 billion per year.
In many countries there is a lack of mental health services in terms of funding and available human resource.
Mental Health Awareness Day - 10th of October!
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