{"id":2191,"date":"2022-10-04T12:30:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T19:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/wellness\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2022-10-04T12:30:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T19:30:39","slug":"world-mental-health-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/wellness\/2022\/10\/04\/world-mental-health-day\/","title":{"rendered":"World Mental Health Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World Mental Health Day is marked every year on October 10 to raise awareness about mental health around the world.&nbsp; As our understanding of mental health grows, we grow along with it and our self-awareness and sensitivity towards it have changed things for the better. Our language surrounding mental health has improved as words like \u201ccrazy\u201d and \u201clunatic\u201d are used less flippantly and we come to better understand that they can be unintentionally hurtful and stigmatizing. While we\u2019ve learned a lot, there\u2019s still so much more we can do to evolve as a society.<\/p>\n<p>The theme for World Mental Health Day 2022 is \u2018Make mental health for all a global priority\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>LifeWorks is launching it&#8217;s latest microsite on the <strong>Impact of Social Media on Mental Health<\/strong> on World Mental Health Day: October 10, 2022.&nbsp;Ready to browse the microsite?&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wellbeing.lifeworks.com\/ca\/newsletter-content\/microsite-the-impact-of-social-media-on-mental-health\/?utm_campaign=GEN-NW-2022-04-Customer%20Bulletin-GL&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsmi=225867028&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--vo8S-eEPLnah16Bwnw7euRkLpcIvs4doYs9BTmTibW7XRugCi_HfKkpaM7YaXVdhe30EQzK-7zBuyGTywhOFvMTu1Sg&amp;utm_content=225867028&amp;utm_source=hs_email\">Click here<\/a>&nbsp;for a wellbeing boost!<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: National Today<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>LifeWorks Total Wellbeing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/uvic.lifeworks.com\/?utm_source=lifeworks.com&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_campaign=alternate_header\">platform<\/a>&nbsp;is now live.&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><em>&nbsp;Complete a health assessment, begin a self-paced wellness program, check out supports and resources. Get the help you need, anytime, anywhere.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Mental Health Day is marked every year on October 10 to raise awareness about mental health around the world.&nbsp; As our understanding of mental health grows, we grow along with it and our self-awareness and sensitivity towards it have changed things for the better. Our language surrounding mental health has improved as words like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14812,"featured_media":2192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-know","category-learn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/wellness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/wellness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/wellness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/wellness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14812"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/wellness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/wellness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2193,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/wellness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions\/2193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/wellness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/wellness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/wellness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/wellness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}