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World Mental Health Day

About mental health care, and the stigma that stops people asking for it.

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10 Oct 2026
Marked by
World Health Organization
Causes
Health
Schedule VII
item i
SDGs
3

Tags are a guide to what the day is about. They don’t mean a piece of work qualifies as CSR spending.

Story ideas

  1. 1

    A helpline and the volunteers who answer it

  2. 2

    Peer support on a college campus

  3. 3

    A counsellor who works in villages

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