World Mental Health Day: Mind the Mind Now

Opinion Editorial by Dr Arvind Mathur, WHO Representative and UN Resident Coordinator, on the importance of discourse and raising awareness on mental health and suicide prevention.

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World Mental Health Day 2019 banner on suicide prevention. IMAGE/WHO

2019-10-17 10:07:07

In recent years, Mental Health has increasingly become a topic broadly, yet vaguely discussed about in our society and still not advocated consistently enough. Mental Health means something different to each person. WHO defines Mental Health as a state of well-being in which every individual realizes his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to her or his community. The positive dimension of mental health is stressed in WHO's definition of health as contained in our constitution: "Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."

I personally and firmly believe that; there is no Health without Mental Health.

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