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Essay On World Mental Health

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WORLD MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK – 2014

Every year on October 10th, the healthcare professionals and organisations all over the world observe the World Mental Health Day and the following week as World Mental Health Awareness Week. This program was initiated by World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) in 1992, with the overall objective of raising awareness of mental health issues around the world and for mobilizing efforts in support of mental health. This Day provides an opportunity for all stakeholders working on mental health issues to talk about their work, discuss what more needs to be done to make mental health care a reality for people worldwide and also conduct public awareness events.
This year the WFMH has chosen the theme “Living with Schizophrenia” for 2014 World Mental Health Day campaign, in order …show more content…

However, a number of programmes to diminish the stigma related to mental illness and its consequences have been started in the recent years. For example, in a major international effort World Psychiatric Association (WPA) has launched The Global Programme against Stigma and Discrimination Because of Schizophrenia in 1996, known as “Open the Doors”. India is also involved in this multinational initiative with the programme being captioned in Hindi as “SCHIZOPHRENIA - Dharwaza khula rakhe”.
As an individual or as a treating physician / psychiatrist, how can we help in reducing this stigma associated with Schizophrenia and other mental illness from the

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