October 10th - World Mental Health Day

The theme of this year’s World Mental Health Day is mental and physical health across the life span, emphasizing the importance of recognizing the inter-dependence of good mental and physical health at every stage of life.

Poor physical health, whether in infancy, childhood, adulthood or in the later years of life, can interfere with emotional health and well-being, while serious mental illnesses and disorders such as depression or anxiety often result in neglect of serious physical health issues such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis and respiratory illness.

This year’s World Mental Health Day theme stresses the important fact that “there is no health without mental health,” and urges increased awareness and understanding that good physical and good mental health are important for successful growth and development at all stages of life.

Materials: http://www.wfmh.org/wmhday2005.htm