Canada Mental Health Awareness Month

   

About Mental Health Week

• Every year since 1951, Canadian Mental Health Association has hosted Mental Health Week in the first full week in May, making 2021 the 70th year. Mental Health Week is a Canadian tradition, with communities, schools, and workplaces rallying to celebrate, protect and promote mental health.

The core objective of Mental Health Week is to promote mental health because mental health is something we can promote and protect, not just something we can lose. Visit for info and tools about CMHA Mental Health Week.

 Again, like many countries, they will all have a theme to represent something for mental health awareness month and these were the ones that have been done so far as follows:  

May 3-9, 2021 – Understanding Our Emotions

About the 2021 Canda Mental Health Association   Mental Health Week campaign

• The theme of this year’s Mental Health Week is understanding our emotions. Recognizing, labeling, and accepting our feelings are all part of protecting and promoting good mental health for everyone.  Naming, expressing, and dealing with our emotions—even when they’re uncomfortable—can make us feel better.

• Connect on social media using the hashtags #GetReal and #MentalHealthWeek.  

October 3-9, 2022 – EMPATHY

Every year since 1951, the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) has hosted Mental Health Week in the first full week in May, making 2022 the 71st year. Mental Health Week is a Canadian tradition, with communities, schools, and workplaces rallying to celebrate, protect and promote mental health. This year, the theme is empathy.
  • When someone is struggling, you don’t have to fix their pain. Tune in and see through their eyes. This is empathy.
  • You can understand even if you don’t agree. Understand someone’s feelings.  This is empathy.
  • We may be different but we’re not on different sides. See the world as others do. This is empathy. 
The campaign calls for us to #GetReal about how we feel and is based on the insight that people in Canada commonly ask one another how we are but that it is also common not to provide – or expect – a truthful answer. Many of us say we’re fine, even when we don’t mean it. ‘Fine’ keeps us at arm’s length from real social connections with others. Every time we just go through the motions, we miss a chance to connect with others in a meaningful way. Each year, 1 in 5 Canadians will experience a mental illness or mental health issue, but 5 in 5 Canadians have mental health—we all need social connection. Engage with them on social media using the hashtags #GetReal #GetLoud and #MentalHealthWeek. Twitter – @CU_HWP        

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