Mental Health Awareness Week 2023
Date/Time
Date(s) - 15/05/2023 - 21/05/2023
All Day
Categories
Mental Health is included in Sustainable Development Goal 3 which focuses on ensuring healthy lives and promoting wellbeing for all at all ages. See this report from the World Health Organisation for more.
In 2023 the theme of Mental Health Awareness Week is Anxiety. 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. But 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.
Mental Health Awareness Week is organised by the Mental Health Foundation.
More information and Resources
Mental Health Awareness Week page by Mental Health Foundation
Mind and the cost of living crisis focus within Mental Health Awareness Week