Mental Health Awareness Week is a week in the annual calendar, where we all have a fantastic opportunity to come together to shed light on key issues surrounding mental health.
The week aims to encourage positive conversations about mental health, tackle stigma, and help people better understand and see the importance of their own mental health and the mental health of others.
This year’s theme, set by the Mental Health Foundation, is anxiety. Here is an excerpt directly from their website, so you can read the reasons why in their own words:
“Anxiety is a normal emotion in us all, but sometimes it can get out of control and become a mental health problem.
Lots of things can lead to feelings of anxiety, including exam pressures, relationships, starting a new job (or losing one) or other big life events. We can also get anxious when it comes to things to do with money and not being able to meet our basic needs, like heating our home or buying food.
Anxiety is one of the most common mental health problems we can face. In a recent mental health survey we carried out around stress, anxiety and hopelessness over personal finances, a quarter of adults said they felt so anxious that it stopped them from doing the things they want to do some or all of the time. Six in ten adults feel this way, at least some of the time. On a positive note, anxiety can be made easier to manage.
Focusing on anxiety for this year's Mental Health Awareness Week will increase people's awareness and understanding of anxiety by providing information on the things that can help prevent it from becoming a problem. At the same time, we will keep up the pressure to demand change - making sure that improving mental health is a key priority for the government and society as a whole.”
- The Mental Health Foundation
You can get involved with this year’s theme by using the hashtag #ToHelpMyAnxiety on social media, and help raise awareness of the cause. In the spirit of Mental Health Awareness week, we will be posting some stories along this theme over the course of the week.
At Karbon Homes, we believe that everyone deserves the opportunity to make the most of their lives. And what’s more, you don’t have to face life’s challenges alone. We provide a wide range of personalised support services in Newcastle and throughout the North East for people with diagnosed mental health needs.
You can find out more about our mental health services in the community here.
Mental Health Awareness Week is a week in the annual calendar, where we all have a fantastic opportunity to come together to shed light on key issues surrounding mental health.
The week aims to encourage positive conversations about mental health, tackle stigma, and help people better understand and see the importance of their own mental health and the mental health of others.
This year’s theme, set by the Mental Health Foundation, is anxiety. Here is an excerpt directly from their website, so you can read the reasons why in their own words:
“Anxiety is a normal emotion in us all, but sometimes it can get out of control and become a mental health problem.
Lots of things can lead to feelings of anxiety, including exam pressures, relationships, starting a new job (or losing one) or other big life events. We can also get anxious when it comes to things to do with money and not being able to meet our basic needs, like heating our home or buying food.
Anxiety is one of the most common mental health problems we can face. In a recent mental health survey we carried out around stress, anxiety and hopelessness over personal finances, a quarter of adults said they felt so anxious that it stopped them from doing the things they want to do some or all of the time. Six in ten adults feel this way, at least some of the time. On a positive note, anxiety can be made easier to manage.
Focusing on anxiety for this year's Mental Health Awareness Week will increase people's awareness and understanding of anxiety by providing information on the things that can help prevent it from becoming a problem. At the same time, we will keep up the pressure to demand change - making sure that improving mental health is a key priority for the government and society as a whole.”
- The Mental Health Foundation
You can get involved with this year’s theme by using the hashtag #ToHelpMyAnxiety on social media, and help raise awareness of the cause. In the spirit of Mental Health Awareness week, we will be posting some stories along this theme over the course of the week.
At Karbon Homes, we believe that everyone deserves the opportunity to make the most of their lives. And what’s more, you don’t have to face life’s challenges alone. We provide a wide range of personalised support services in Newcastle and throughout the North East for people with diagnosed mental health needs.
You can find out more about our mental health services in the community here.
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