Mental Health Awareness Week

Today marks the beginning of Mental Health Awareness Week, an opportunity for us to come together to address ways society can grow and change to better support people with mental health support needs. This week also allows us to help dismantle the stigma surrounding mental health, and offer a kind hand to people in our communities who may be struggling.

This year’s theme is all about ‘community’, and how having the support of people around us is beneficial to our mental health. Community can mean different things to different people- it could be the people closest to you, your housemates, your family or friends, people you know in groups you attend, or people you are friendly with online or who are far away. Whatever your community means to you, they are a huge support to our mental health, help us through the hard times, and can really raise you up so you know you’re not on your own.

As this year is the year of ‘Doing what Matters to Me’, we want to encourage you to seek out your friends and loved ones, and lean on them whenever you need in whatever way works for you. It could be as simple as asking someone to go for a walk with you, meeting up to do a fun activity, or something that would bring you and the other person joy. You can also be the person who asks how someone else is doing, checking in on our loved ones and those in our communities which matter to you.

This Mental Health Awareness Week, we hope everyone recognises the importance of our own mental health and that of the people’s around us. There is nothing quite like the support of someone we know and love, even if they don’t realise how much it makes a difference to our day.

Learn more by clicking the link below:

https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/our-work/public-engagement/mental-health-awareness-week