World Mental Health Day (World Mental Health Day) is celebrated worldwide since 1992 on the initiative of the World Federation for Mental Health (World Federation for Mental Health), in order to increase public awareness of mental health problems and ways to strengthen it, as well as prevention and treatment mental disorders.
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To this Day, celebrated annually on October 10, the thematic journals of international psychiatric organizations are published, appeals are sent to government structures and public health bodies calling for participation in the international movement.
Mental health is an integral part and an essential component of health. It is defined as a state of well-being in which everyone can realize their abilities and their own potential, resist ordinary life stresses, work productively and fruitfully and contribute to the life of their community. In this positive sense, mental health is the foundation of everyone's well-being and the effective functioning of the entire community.
The World Health Organization said that nowadays there are more than 450 million people on the planet who suffer from mental illness, every second person in the world has a chance to develop a psychiatric disorder throughout life. Most of them are people with borderline mental disorders. The most common mental illness is depression.
According to WHO forecasts, by 2020, it will take the first place among diseases for the duration of incapacity for work in the year. Currently, 26% of women and 12% of men suffer from depression. In the Western countries, every seventh person is either paranoid/schizophrenic, or subject to depression and alcoholism, which often results in the commission of crimes or suicide. Moreover, most people suffering from mental disorders do not have access to the necessary treatment. In addition, mental disorders are risk factors for the development of other diseases (HIV, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, etc.), as well as causing unintentional and intentional injuries.
Therefore, one of the main tasks of the World Mental Health Day is to reduce the prevalence of depressive disorders, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, drug dependence, epilepsy, mental retardation.
It should also be noted that the events dedicated to the Day of Mental Health each year are devoted to a certain topic, among which were: "Children and mental health", "Mental health and human rights", "Mental health and aging", "Interrelation of physical and mental disorders "," Communication of mental health and suicide "," Making mental health a world priority: increase the number of services through the promotion of civil responsibility and active work "," No health without mental health rd "," Depression: A Global Crisis "," Living with schizophrenia "," Mental health and human dignity "," psychological first aid "," Mental Health in the Workplace "and others. In Russia, the Day of Mental Health is celebrated since 2002, on the initiative of the academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Science, TB. Dmitrieva. On this day in many regions of Russia, there are various educational activities: conferences, thematic seminars, open days in psychiatric institutions, etc.
The World Health Organization said that nowadays there are more than 450 million people on the planet who suffer from mental illness, every second person in the world has a chance to develop a psychiatric disorder throughout life. Most of them are people with borderline mental disorders. The most common mental illness is depression.
According to WHO forecasts, by 2020, it will take the first place among diseases for the duration of incapacity for work in the year. Currently, 26% of women and 12% of men suffer from depression. In the Western countries, every seventh person is either paranoid/schizophrenic, or subject to depression and alcoholism, which often results in the commission of crimes or suicide. Moreover, most people suffering from mental disorders do not have access to the necessary treatment. In addition, mental disorders are risk factors for the development of other diseases (HIV, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, etc.), as well as causing unintentional and intentional injuries.
Therefore, one of the main tasks of the World Mental Health Day is to reduce the prevalence of depressive disorders, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, drug dependence, epilepsy, mental retardation.
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| The precursors of mental illness are stress ... (Photo: Twin Design, Shutterstock) |
The growth of morbidity is promoted by information overloads, political and economic cataclysms in the country, and precursors of diseases are stresses. Modern life itself has stresses: changes in the life of political, economic, dislocation at work, and just a trip in public transport led to the fact that a person with his stress starts to reconcile, as well as until the depression is near. Stresses have become part of the life of modern man. People struggle with them, not thinking about what not to fight, not to allow them.
It should also be noted that the events dedicated to the Day of Mental Health each year are devoted to a certain topic, among which were: "Children and mental health", "Mental health and human rights", "Mental health and aging", "Interrelation of physical and mental disorders "," Communication of mental health and suicide "," Making mental health a world priority: increase the number of services through the promotion of civil responsibility and active work "," No health without mental health rd "," Depression: A Global Crisis "," Living with schizophrenia "," Mental health and human dignity "," psychological first aid "," Mental Health in the Workplace "and others. In Russia, the Day of Mental Health is celebrated since 2002, on the initiative of the academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Science, TB. Dmitrieva. On this day in many regions of Russia, there are various educational activities: conferences, thematic seminars, open days in psychiatric institutions, etc.