Everyone is impacted by mental health conditions – including the friends, family, and coworkers who don’t live with a mental health condition themselves. One in five adults in the U.S. experiences a mental health condition each year, which impacts those who know and love them.
Since 1990, Americans have celebrated the first full week of October as Mental Illness Awareness Week after the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) lobbied Congress to create this critical awareness event. This year, Mental Illness Awareness Week is October 6 – 12 and World Mental Health Day is October 10.
This year, alongside the World Federation for Mental Health, the founders of World Mental Health Day, we are recognizing the importance of prioritizing mental health in the workplace.
The theme for Mental Illness Awareness Week and World Mental Health Day this year is “My Mental Health at Work.”
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