This year World Mental Health Day will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a focus on Depression.
This year World Mental Health Day will celebrate its 20th anniversary on Wednesday 10 October with a focus on Depression.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), Depression is the third leading global burden of disease in 2004 and will move into the first place by 2030.
It is now estimated that 350 million people globally are affected by depression.
To find out more about Depression, what it is, who it affects, what they may experience and how to get help, click here.
Get involved
We would like to encourage all of you to mark this worldwide awareness-raising day, and to share with us how you plan to do so so we can publicise your efforts.
To contact us via Twitter, please join us at @5BoroughsNHS using the hashtag #worldmentalhealthday or #WMHD2012
Alternatively, please join in the conversation on Facebook at www.facebook.com/5boroughsNHS
We hope you will forward your photos from your events to us so we can share them via social media and on this page.
Supporting Materials
To download the World Health Organisation’s official World Mental Health Day resource document, click here.
If you require supporting materials from our ‘Sticks and Stones’ campaign, such as posters, leaflets, pens or wristbands, please email communications@5bp.nhs.uk at the earliest opportunity so we can arrange delivery for you.