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World Mental Health Day seeks to raise awareness of mental health illnesses while educating the population and mobilizing efforts to support mental health.<\/p>\nWorld Mental Health Day seeks to raise awareness of mental health illnesses while educating the population and mobilizing efforts to support mental health.<\/p>\n
Mental health, which includes a person’s emotional, psychological and social well-being, has become increasingly important in recent decades as an estimated 350 million people worldwide suffer from depression.<\/p>\n
In 1992, the World Federation for Mental Health<\/a> (WFMH) established World Mental Health Day in an effort to promote education and advocate for mental health sufferers. The Foundation aims to provide further awareness and assistance for those suffering from a wide range of mental disorders in the hopes of saving lives and increasing quality of life for these individuals.<\/p>\n World Mental Health Day is celebrated annually on October 10.<\/p>\n Depression can lead to suicide. More than 800,000 people worldwide take their own lives every year.<\/p>\n Suicide is the third leading cause of death in the world for individuals 15 to 44.<\/p>\n The World Federation for Mental Health is focusing the 2018 WMHDAY campaign on Young People and Mental Health in a Changing World. #worldmentalhealthday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" World Mental Health Day seeks to raise awareness of mental health illnesses while educating the population and mobilizing efforts to support mental health. Mental health, which includes a person’s emotional, psychological and social well-being, has become increasingly important in recent decades as an estimated 350 million people worldwide suffer from depression. In 1992, the World\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15],"tags":[5,3],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-worldwide","tag-depression","tag-mental-health"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1571,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions\/1571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}