~World Mental Health Day Report 1998~

(Last Updated On: )     SUPPORTING THE WORLD FEDERATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH Everyone deserves proper care, treatment and recovery resources for an illness. What makes mental illness different from cancer or heart disease or a physical disability? With the proper care, treatment and resources – recovery is possible for everyone! We will all continue…

(Last Updated On: ) Oceania The Mariana Islands The Newsletter recently received a note from Laura L. Post, M.D., describing mental health services in the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. overseas possession of 14 Pacific islands. Dr. Post was until recently chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the hospital in Saipan and also Medical…

(Last Updated On: ) International Center for Psychosocial Trauma, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA Syed Arshad Husain, director of the International Center for Psychosocial Trauma at the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA, a WFMH Collaborating Center, helped to organize psycho-social relief efforts for victims of the major earthquake in Western India on 26 January 2001. Together with…

(Last Updated On: )Do you have anxiety or depression and your favorite pet helps alleviate your worries? Are you having trouble with housing that doesn’t allow pets, or do you need to take a flight and can’t leave your puppy behind? If so, you may need to register your pet as an emotional support animal…

(Last Updated On: ) Dear Friends, Our 50th anniversary continues to provide unique opportunities to draw attention to global mental health through WFMH’s partnerships with its member organizations and with the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank, media programs and others. One such opportunity was the global advocacy campaign to try to influence the…

(Last Updated On: ) Namibia Antonia Kangumine of the Ministry of Health and Social Services wrote from Windhoek that mental health care in her country was in a developing stage, and that the Ministry was considering the World Mental Health Day kit’s material on the protection of persons with mental illness. She added that to…