Promote Mental Health Awareness with These Video Resources
While there’s a great deal of talk about the importance of maintaining one’s physical health, mental health tends to get overlooked or even downplayed. Yet, the two are heavily interlinked. Poor physical health can lead to poor mental health, and vice versa; for example, depression can increase the risk of physical health problems, including diabetes and heart disease. As such, for librarians and educators, encouraging students and patrons to maintain physically healthy lifestyles is important, but it won’t really have an impact unless mental health and wellness is also taken into consideration. How common is mental illness? More common than you think: one study published in The Lancet Psychiatry concluded that approximately half the global population will develop one or more mental illnesses by the time they reach age 75. According to the CDC, more than one in five American adults currently live with a mental illness, and one in 25 Americans struggles with a serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia or major depression. With numbers like that, it’s likely that some of your students and patrons are affected by mental illness or are close to someone who is. If you’re looking for videos on mental health to share with
