WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY
The most classic definition of Health goes back to the statement that the WHO made in 1948 and which still endures and prays: "Health is a state of complete physical, mental (mental) and social well-being, and not only the absence of conditions or diseases".
Later, at the meeting on Health Promotion organized by the WHO in Ottawa (1986) it was added: "The ability of people to face challenges and changes" Here is the functional aspect in addition to the physical, mental and social.
So Mental Health is not just the absence of a mental disorder. The WHO defines it as a welfare state in which the person is aware of their own abilities, can face the normal stresses of life, can work fruitfully and make a contribution to their community.
Dalal Xel Mental Health Center in Thiès
Everyone has mental health, just like everyone has physical health.
On this global day of Mental Health we need to see once again that in the societies of impoverished countries ordinary health services are often of an alarming precariousness, and by extension mental health care is as much or more precarious, when not non-existent.
Emile Badiane Mental Health Center in Ziguinchor
Societies that care about the mental health of their citizens and take care of it generate more collective well-being and promote that the people who live there have more capacity and resources to overcome the adversities of life.
Emile Badiane Mental Health Center in Ziguinchor
From The Fundació Kassumay on this occasion we voice to exclaim in the face of the lack of access to medical care in so many parts of the world and today in particular to the lack of consultations and care in Mental Health, which is often the great forgotten and even invisible. In some territories disorders and mental illnesses are considered curses and are a terrible stigma for those who suffer from them. We are all a long way from achieving quality universal mental health care services everywhere and being protagonists in accepting and solidarity with those affected.
