China News Service, October 10 (Chen Jing Qiaoying) October 10 is the 29th World Mental Health Day.
On the same day, at the World Mental Health Day webcast theme event hosted by the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission with the theme of "Body Online, Traveling in Shanghai", experts agreed that improving mental health services and promoting mental health is a continuous process.
The health department should not be the only solution provider for patients with mental illness and their families. It requires the participation of multiple departments and the efforts of everyone.
Zhang Hao, deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, also pointed out that it is hoped that the whole society will actively participate in the construction of the psychological service system and the anti-epidemic mental health action, to better play the role of mental health services, maintain the health of the people and the harmony and stability of the society, and promote the mental health of Shanghai The career has entered a more virtuous circle.
The World Mental Health Alliance has set the theme of this year's World Mental Health Day as "action, everyone enjoys mental health services" and calls on countries around the world to increase mental health investment as soon as possible.
The National Health Commission responded with the theme of "Promoting the spirit of protest and protecting mental health", calling on the whole society to actively participate in mental health work, share health care responsibilities, promote the formation of a social atmosphere that understands, accepts, and cares for people with mental disorders, and protects the public Mental health promotes social harmony and stability.
"World Mental Health Day" was initiated by the World Mental Health Alliance in 1992 to raise awareness of the importance and urgency of mental health among government departments, all walks of life, and the general public, and to popularize mental health knowledge.
Cai Jun, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the Shanghai Mental Health Center, said: “The reason for setting up Mental Health Day is to hope that people all over the world can value their mental and psychological health, be able to accept people with mental disorders, and eliminate discrimination.” With the impact of the pneumonia epidemic, tens of millions of infections, and over a million deaths, this World Mental Health Day has special significance.
The new crown pneumonia not only harms health, but the spread of the epidemic also affects the public's psychology.
The rising number of infections and deaths worldwide has caused public anxiety, panic, and uncertainty; a series of measures such as isolation and lockdown have interrupted the spread of the epidemic, reduced infections and deaths, and also disrupted normal social contacts and caused discomfort. Emotional or mental health issues.
In August of this year, the Director-General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: "For many people, the pandemic...has already had a profound impact on mental health."
Zhang Hao believes that Shanghai mental health workers have played an important role in the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic and are an important part of the anti-epidemic achieved staged results.
He said that the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have always attached importance to the construction of the mental health system, and took the "Healthy Shanghai 2030" planning outline and action plan as an opportunity to comprehensively promote the implementation of the "mental health promotion action."
According to reports, in June of this year, the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission and eleven departments jointly issued the "Shanghai Mental Health System Construction and Development Plan (2020-2030)", actively building coordination among departments, society, families, and individuals to cover the entire population The mental health system that can effectively support the public’s independent management of mental health can better meet the needs of public mental health services.
The event was co-organized by Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Mental Health Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and mental health centers in 16 districts of Shanghai.
The 16 districts of Shanghai unlock the map of mental health services in Shanghai based on their mental health service resources, service content and characteristics.
It is understood that art and emotion have a symbiotic relationship.
Art can express people's emotions, and mood can be sublimated in art.
In the secret experience activities of art and body held by Shanghai Mental Health Center and others, painter Wang Zhongsheng believes that each individual's body is a space, which is filled with material flesh and blood, and also carries emotional memories.
"Many diseases are emotional metaphors, but the signals of the body are often ignored by us. When you feel that you are in depression, anxiety, etc., you can use art to express and vent." (End)