Mental Health Awareness Week

^{Mental Health Ireland celebrates World Mental Health Day with local events for the whole community to enjoy}

^{Plan to Protect Your Mental Health & Wellbeing} 

^{World Mental Health Day is celebrated worldwide on the 10th of October. It is an opportunity to bring awareness to mental health on an international, national and local scale, informing and educating people about mental health and to work towards ending the stigma and create a non-judgemental space for people struggling with their mental health to open up and talk. If you would like to plan an event during Mental Health Week please download our Toolkit Here!}

^{Mental Health Ireland’s vision is for an Ireland where mental health is valued as being an essential part of personal wellbeing and the health of the nation.  Rather than focusing on mental and emotional pain as something to be eradicated, we need to promote the message that it is normal and indeed natural to feel down at times, and that feeling vulnerable is an inherent part of being human.} 

^{Mental Health Ireland will launch their ‘Plan to Protect your Mental Wellbeing’ campaign this Mental Health Week. It encourages everyone to become aware of their wellbeing by following five simple steps. These include Connecting with others, being Active on a daily basis, Taking Notice of what’s happening around you, to Keep Learning and to Give back to your community, friends or family. By monitoring our activities and actions in these areas of our daily lives we can see which areas we are doing well in and others we may need to concentrate on.} 

^{Mental Health Ireland have 103 Mental Health Associations in communities all over Ireland. Each Association has developed a number of activities and events to celebrate World Mental Health Week between the 5th-12th October. Some of these activities include:}

^{National Choral Singing Week in association with Mental Health Ireland. 
Laois Connects in association with Mental Health Ireland – full week of events can be found in this link 
Limerick Mental Health Association awareness week are compiling their events and information can be found on their facebook page
Mensana Fest with Carlow Mental Health Association will be revealing their events on their facebook page 
The Longford Mental Health Association are hosting a musical evening in the Longford Arms Hotel on the 9th October} 

^{More information and events will be uploaded so please keep an eye on this page for events taking place in your locality and please support Mental Health Ireland. If you would like to organise your own event please see this link for our World Mental Health Week Toolkit}  

^{Text MHI to 50300 to donate €4 to Mental Health Ireland}

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