10/10/2026
💬 Mental health care works best when people feel heard.
🤲🏼 This *World Mental Health Day* focuses on lived experience and the meaningful role people with mental health conditions can play in shaping care.
*Key facts:*
🌍 More than 1 billion people live with a mental health condition.
🧠 Many mental health conditions can be effectively treated at relatively low cost, yet treatment gaps remain wide worldwide.
🏥 Only around 1 in 10 countries have fully transitioned from institution-based to community-based mental health care.
⚠️ Poverty, violence and inequality can increase the risk of mental health conditions, while bullying is a leading risk factor.
💡 Mental health is shaped by many factors throughout life. Risks during sensitive developmental periods, especially early childhood, can be particularly harmful.
*Mental health can be protected by:*
🤝 Positive social interactions and strong community ties
👥 Social and emotional skills
🎓 Access to quality education and decent work
🏡 Safe neighbourhoods
💙 Let’s move from listening to action – and build mental health care with people with lived experience, not simply for them.
Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/4ACx0nw
