Mental Health Awareness Week

The official theme for 2023's Mental Health Awareness Week is anxiety.

For Mental Health Awareness Week 2023, we will look at how anxiety can affect people living with severe mental illness, what external factors can trigger this strong response, and what we can do to support our peers. 

Everyone can feel anxious. But when you live with severe mental illness, anxiety can reach a whole new level. Stigma. Discrimination. Lack of support. Side effects of medication. Mania. Psychosis. Limited access to housing, employment, and welfare. These are all unique anxieties, faced on a daily basis by those of us experiencing mental illness.  

But is that something you hear about often in today’s society? No.

This year, for Mental Health Awareness Week, we want to change that. Although some people may find it useful, we’re fed up with being told to have a bath or light a scented candle. The world is different if you experience a mental illness. It’s time for people to truly understand what it is like to live in our shoes. It’s time for a society that truly cares for people living with mental illness. 

Share our message of hope. 

Get involved this Mental Health Awareness Week and share one of our social media cards on your Facebook, Twitter or Instagram profiles! Just right-click the image and save it to your desktop.

We are encouraging our supporters to use the following copy:

"The world is different if you experience a mental illness. For #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, it’s time for people to truly understand what it is like to live in our shoes."

Don't forget to tag us in your post: @Rethink_ for twitter, @RethinkCharity for Facebook and @rethinkmentalillness on Instagram.

Join us. Listen, read, watch and share our content starting 15 May 2023. Because the only way we can make change is together.