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Every year the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) organizes Mental Health Awareness Month<\/a>. It was established in 1949 to increase awareness of the importance of mental health and wellness in Americans\u2019 lives and to celebrate recovery from mental illness. In this post I\u2019d like to highlight some NLM, government and other trusted resources relevant to this month.<\/p>\n MedlinePlus has excellent general consumer health resources on mental health topics. Their main Mental Health page<\/a> includes information for a general audience, as well as population specific information such as resources for children, teenagers and older adults. This information is also available on the Spanish version<\/a> of the MedlinePlus. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) also has an excellent collection of resources<\/a> on a variety of mental disorders and population groups.<\/p>\n One of the major focuses of Mental Health Awareness Month is on reducing the stigmatization of mental health and mental illnesses. Stigma and discrimination around mental illness is still widespread and has a dramatic effect on those experiencing these disorders. It can lead people to be less likely to seek out help even when it is available and can even worsen the underlying disorder. Because of this, SAMHSA recommends the use of less stigmatizing and person-first language when discussing mental health. They identified this excellent infographic<\/a> from the National Federation of Families which discusses alternatives to stigmatizing language along with reasoning.<\/p>\n Government agencies produce and collect significant amounts of data on mental health and mental illness. SAMHSA\u2019s Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality<\/a> systematically collects data on mental illness and substance use disorders. The CDC collects fast statistics<\/a> on mental health that can be a useful starting point. The NIMH\u2019s statistics page<\/a> is particularly useful because of its granular breakdown by mental illness type.<\/p>\n We hope you find these resources on a critical topic such as mental health useful!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Every year the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) organizes Mental Health Awareness Month. It was established in 1949 to increase awareness of the importance of mental health and wellness in Americans\u2019 lives and to celebrate recovery from mental illness. In this post I\u2019d like to highlight some NLM, government and other trusted… Read More »<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-17415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17415","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=17415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17417,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17415\/revisions\/17417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}General Resources<\/h3>\n
Mental Health and Stigma<\/h3>\n
Statistics and data<\/h3>\n
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