Mental Health Awareness Month - May 2017

For those of you that do not know, May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Join us to celebrate with different discussions and activities to get involved with.

Member discussions:

Discussions will be held daily throughout May (this thread will be updated weekly for details) on awareness of different mental health conditions. Within these discussions we will explore What the condition is, what it feels like to live with it, a short discussion on coping, supporting people with the condition and how we can raise awareness. All discussions will be lead in the World Mental Health day room

This weeks discussions are:

MAY 20th

Eating Disorders @3.30pm ET for Adults or 1.30pm ET for Teens

Dependent Personality Disorder @5pm ET for Adults or 10pm ET for Teens

MAY 21st

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) @8am ET for Adults or 7pm ET for Teens

Schizophrenia @5pm ET for Adults or 1.30pm ET for Teens

MAY 22nd

Schizotypal Personality Disorder @3pm ET for Adults or 6pm ET for teens

MAY 23rd

PTSD @12pm ET for Adults or 6pm ET for Teens

Health anxiety @ for Adults or 1.30pm for Teens

May 24th

Living with mental illness @2pm for Adults or 6pm for Teens
Narcistic Personality Disorder @11am for Adults or 5pm for Teens

May 25th

Antisocial Personality Disorder @11am for Adults or 6pm for Teens

OSDD @1pm ET for Adults or @11am for Teens

May 26th

Invisible illnesses @ (times to be added)

Paranoid personality disorder @(time to be added) for adults or 6pm for Teens

May 27th

Addiction @2pm ET for adults or 6pm ET for teens

Anankastic Personality Disorder @(time to be added) for adults or 7.30pm ET for teens

May 28th

Aspergers @(date to be added) for adults or 6pm for Teens

Avoidant Personality Disorder @5pm for adults or 4.45pm for teens

Listener Discussions:

In addition to member discussions all listener discussions on how to handle chats on ****** will be devoted to different mental health conditions to celebrate mental health awareness month (for details please check out the calender)

Also please check out the following forum & feed activities (as found and described by @QuickJazz for Mental health awareness week in previous years) I look forward to seeing your amazing contributions, let us know If you do participate by tagging @fluffyunicorns84 @MissZ in your post.

Forum Posts:

Dignity in Mental health - To talk more about the theme of WMHD 2015

Future of Mental Health: Acceptance - Information: What is the future? How do you cope?

The Action Plan - This is really cool action plan for Dignity in Mental Health that is used in Australia and 23 other countries. We've been using this plan on 7cups without knowing, so worth a share!

I suffer from..., but… - Let us know who you are and what you go through, stigma-free.

How to combat various mental health stigma! - This is to reflect upon the various types of stigma surrounding mental health, and to become aware of and share various ways of addressing it. Both for the benefit of ourselves and for others.

Stigma Surrounding Mental Health

If the world were stigma-free regarding mental health, … Share what a stigma-free environment would mean to you.

Reaching out for support via the forums - A brief list of some of the places one can seek support for mental illness and other invisible illnesses

Confessions of those affected by mental illness - Anonymously share whats on your mind regarding mental illness.

Feed Activities:

I suffer from…, but... - Let us know who you are and what you go through! Hashtags: #StigmaFree #MHAM

One thing I want people to know about mental illness is… Let us know what youd like others to know about mental illness! Hashtags: #OneThing #StigmaFree #MHAM

@laura @missz