Under the slogan 'Opening minds.
Closing wounds', the Association of Families and Persons with Mental Illness Northwest (Afemnor), celebrates this week the World Mental Health Day which is celebrated on October 10.
The aim of the scheduled activities is "to raise awareness about the discrimination they suffer even people with mental health problems", as explained by the association.
The campaign this year and the theme chosen focus on the need for society to know the reality of people with mental disorders and their families as a way to banish the prejudices that still weigh on this group and involving one of his main obstacles every day.
Afemnor being installed along this week booths at health centers in all five boroughs of the Northwest Region.
In Cehegín be tomorrow, Wednesday, October 8, from 11:30 hours.
In addition to providing information in this table signatures for the petition to create a unit at the Regional Psychiatric Hospital Northwest will be collected.
On Friday, October 10, World Mental Health Day will be held the II Festival of Mental Health 'Tansanamente', from 18:00 in the Garden of the Third Cehegín with headquarters Afemnor .
The party will include fun and festive workshops, competitions, tastings of artisanal products, live music and the reading of a manifesto.
From Afemnor work for the whole society awareness and understanding of mental disorders, that discrimination still experienced by people with mental disorder type in many areas of daily life is removed.
The World Mental Health Day is a great occasion to remember the will of recovery and overcoming that people with mental disorders show every day of the year, despite all the barriers they encounter.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cehegín