{"id":16939,"date":"2022-05-02T22:42:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T22:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/?p=16939"},"modified":"2022-05-02T22:42:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T22:42:30","slug":"mental-health-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/2022\/05\/02\/mental-health-awareness-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health Awareness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every May since 1949 has been commemorated as Mental Health Awareness Month. During this month we \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/presidential-actions\/2022\/04\/29\/a-proclamation-on-national-mental-health-awareness-month-2022\/\">raise awareness about the importance of mental health and its impact on the well-being of all Americans<\/a>.\u201d Mental health and mental illness affects a wide swathe of the country, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nimh.nih.gov\/health\/statistics\/mental-illness\">2020 nearly 53 million, or one in five, US adults<\/a> lived with a mental illness. The Substance Abuse and Mental health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has organized a slate of programming for the month which can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samhsa.gov\/programs\/mental-health-awareness-month\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the National Library of Medicine\u2019s historical collections there are lots of mental health related items, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/hmd\/collections\/films\/mentalhealthguide\/index.html\">this collection<\/a> of Mental Health Motion Pictures which contains \u201cnearly 200 films and videorecordings produced from the 1930s up to and including 1970\u201d. These provide a fascinating historical look into how mental health and illnesses were viewed, presented and treated. Many are available digitally and freely, so check them out!<\/p>\n<p>Within May there are a few specific days and weeks to be aware of which are related to Mental Health Awareness Month. There\u2019s SAMHSA\u2019s Prevention Day 2022 on May 9<sup>th<\/sup>, which begins National Prevention Week, which brings together communities and organizations to raise awareness about the importance of substance use prevention and mental health, two issues that are often deeply connected. Learn more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samhsa.gov\/prevention-week\">here<\/a> about Prevention Week and programming.<\/p>\n<p>SAMHSA has also been the organizer of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samhsa.gov\/childrens-awareness-day\">National Children\u2019s Mental Health Awareness Day<\/a>, which is May 7<sup>th<\/sup>, since 2005. It\u2019s goal is to \u201cto shine a national spotlight on the importance of caring for every child\u2019s mental health and to reinforce the message that positive mental health is essential to a child\u2019s healthy development.\u201d Learn more about the day at the link above and about community events <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samhsa.gov\/childrens-awareness-day\/community-events\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Resources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nimh.nih.gov\/health\/publications\">Brochures and Fact Sheets<\/a> \u2013 various topics (National Institute of Mental Health)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nimh.nih.gov\/health\/topics\">Mental Health Topics<\/a> (National Institute of Mental Health)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nimh.nih.gov\/health\/statistics\/mental-illness\">Mental Health Statistics<\/a> (National Institute of Mental Health)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.samhsa.gov\/resources-serving-older-adults\">Mental Health Resources for Older Adults<\/a> (SAMHSA)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/mentalhealth.html\">Mental Health<\/a> (MedlinePlus)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/mentaldisorders.html\">Mental Disorders<\/a> (MedlinePlus)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every May since 1949 has been commemorated as Mental Health Awareness Month. During this month we \u201craise awareness about the importance of mental health and its impact on the well-being of all Americans.\u201d Mental health and mental illness affects a wide swathe of the country, in 2020 nearly 53 million, or one in five, US&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/2022\/05\/02\/mental-health-awareness-month\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2974,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[543,145],"class_list":["post-16939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-awareness-month","tag-mental-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2974"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16940,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16939\/revisions\/16940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}