Mental Health Awareness Week takes place 13-19 May 2019. The theme this year is:
Body Image - How we think and feel about our bodies.
Last year Mental Health Foundation found that 30% of all adults have felt so stressed by body image and appearance that they felt overwhelmed or unable to cope.
That’s almost 1 in every 3 people.
Body image issues can affect all of us at any age and directly impact our mental health. However there is still a lack of much-needed research and understanding around this.
As part of Mental Health Awareness Week, Mental Health Foundation will be publishing the results of a UK-wide survey on body image and mental health. This will look at body image issues across a lifetime – including how it affects children and young people, adults and people in later life. Mental Health Foundation will also highlight how people can experience body image issues differently, including people of different ages, genders, ethnicities and sexualities.
The good news is that we can tackle body image through what children are taught in schools, by the way we talk about our bodies on a daily basis and through policy change by governments across the UK. Mental Health Foundation will use our research to continue campaigning for positive change and publish practical tools to help improve the nation’s relationship with their bodies.
Want to join in? Visit Mental Health Foundation
Published on Monday 13th May 2019