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I just discovered a great new blog for those of us with creative brain wiring: “Let’s Get Happy” written by Deborah Robinson. I learned of it while visiting Jane Chin’s wonderful site, Mental Health Source Page.
Deborah writes about World Mental Health Day, which is when?
April Fools Day?
All Saints Day?
Halloween?
Your birthday?
Nope.
Today!
October 10 is World Mental Health Day.
What does this mean? You get to go about your day exactly as you did yesterday: get up and pray, take your meds, go for a walk or a run outside, try to stretch that damn happy cap over your head, go to therapy, call a friend, log onto Beyond Blue (five times please), tell a joke, eat a meal (preferably with someone), and go to bed at the same time you did yesterday (good sleep hygiene).
Check out what Deborah has to write about World Mental Health Day by clicking here.
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posted October 10, 2007 at 12:05 pm
RE -Mental Health Day
April Fools Day?
All Saints Day?
Halloween?
Your birthday?
Nope.
Today!
** All of the above, and you can throw in Christ Mass. New Year, New Day, New Age and New Creation … “Today is the First Day, of the rest of your Live” …
“Go forth and re-New the face of the Earth !” …
“Bearing with one another Lovingly”
LUV 2 ALL
Wisdum
posted October 10, 2007 at 1:29 pm
You know me, Therese, if I didn’t know the date already, I would have said April Fool’s Day. (Sigh.)
posted October 10, 2007 at 1:57 pm
How sad that our society has so many individuals who have emotional/mental/spiritual illnesses that we need a special day to deicate to health of all the above! Unfortunately, though, that’s the case. and since we’ve beed discussing ‘whining lately, I have a complaint(BIG SURPRISE, RIGHT?) how come other special days (Bosses’ Day, for example) have gift-giving attached but OUR day doesn’t? in fact, i can’t recall ever even receiving a greeting card to commemorate this special day. (Hallmatk, you’re missing the boat here!) Call me materialistic or greedy (You wouldn’t be the first) but it seems to me that reaching out to someone who is struggling to find mental/spiritual/emotional health would be even more appropriate on THIS day than it is the other 3641/2 days of the year! So, my cyberfriends, let me be the first (the last/ the ONLY?) to wish each of you a (relatively)safe, contented, even-keeled twenty-four hours with the “dog securely locked away in a kennel and the abyss spanned by an easy-to-cross footbridge! If I could, I’d send you each a dozen roses (or at least one anyway!) And, Therese, YOU deserve not only the roses but a five pound box of Godivas to go with it for all you do to promote our collective and individual well being. HAPPY MENTAL HEALTH DAY, EVERYBODY(rO should it be MERRY Mental Health Day?) In honor of the occasion, perhaps I’ll email hallmark to point out the error of their ways 7 the thousands of dollars they AREN’T raking in due to this oversight. Or as wisum would say….or not!)
posted October 11, 2007 at 12:06 pm
For those of us who have experienced the devastating effects of depression and bipolar disorder, every day that we enjoy a semblance of “normalcy” and contentment is worthy of celebration.
I know I am
Jane
posted October 11, 2007 at 5:54 pm
HAPPY MENTAL HEALTH DAY to you too Margaret and to Therese and all who post! Larry, I would have said Halloween. ;-P L.