The Artsy Cure

Mental health is an important condition of human existence, and before we can all sit down and highlight the numerous policies that the government or private institutions should adopt to generate greater investment and access, we first and foremost need to focus on what we as individuals are contributing to the understanding and awareness about these issues. We need to question whether we even know what is going on with our own state of well-being, as well as that of the other.     Imagine you switch on the television and the first thing you see is a red, hot, raging wall of fire consuming half of the wildlife to ashes. You transition to another channel, you see farmers on the roads, protesting against the atrocities of capitalism. You see antigovernmental marches; you see a world engulfed in chaos. You realize that while you are aware of certain events, you don ’ t know the background of others. You open your phone and search on Google. You gather the knowledge and feel i...

This year ’ s  World M ental  Health Day (2020) is getting all the hype it deserves! It ’ s good to hype up big mental health movements and campaigns that are happening this month but it is also very important to know what exactly is  “ World Mental Health Day ”   and its history. World Mental Health Day (WMHD) is officially celebrated on 10th October every year, and is supported by the UN. It was first started in 1992 as an annual activity by the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) . The first WMHD did not have any theme. For the first three years, one central activity was a special two-hour global telecast broadcast from studios in Florida that marked the d ay. People who participated included WFMH board members from the studio, with live  telephon ic participation from Chile, England, Australia, and Zambia along with pre-taped segments from Geneva, Mexico City, and Atlanta; but all these were anticipated calls. In one such telecast, WFMH realized that ...