Some of us find setting New Year's resolutions helpful for our mental health, and others don’t. Get ideas for setting mentally healthy goals for the new year.
Pupils, teachers and parents from Kirkintilloch High School in East Dunbartonshire helped launch the new ‘#Make it Count’ campaign from the Mental Health Foundation Scotland today (Wednesday 10 October).
The Mental Health Foundation is the home of Mental Health Awareness Week. We started Mental Health Awareness Week 27 years ago. It's the biggest opportunity for the whole of the UK to come together to focus on getting good mental health. The week aims to tackle stigma and help people understand and prioritise their and others' mental health.
Mental health research in the UK is chronically underfunded. In recent years, there has been an acknowledgement that mental health research is significantly below the equivalent of physical health.
This year marks 70 years since the creation of the Mental Health Foundation. When the Foundation was initially started it was known as the Mental Health Research Fund and though it has changed in many ways over the years, mental health research is still at the core of what we do today.
Let’s be ambitious about ending poverty and improving mental health. If we did end poverty, then all of us, not just those who are poor now, would see benefits for our mental health.
Amidst rising rates of depression, anxiety and self-harm in children and young people, we launched our Make it Count campaign in 2018, because mental health is not extracurricular.
