World Mental Health Day is celebrated on 10 October, and to mark the occasion the Department of Social Welfare has organised various activities under the slogan ‘Calpe, with mental health’. This campaign aims to give visibility and raise awareness of how important it is to take care of our mental health and to know the resources that exist in the municipality.
The Social Welfare Department of has produced an informative guide that defines and explains the resources available in the municipality of Calpe in terms of mental health. The guide covers social and educational resources as well as employment and associative resources. This leaflet will be distributed at each of the commemorative events to be held from today until 10 October.
Throughout the ten days of the campaign, several infographics related to mental health that invite reflection and prevention will be launched on the City Council's social networks. In addition, until 7 October, the façade of the Town Hall, the Casa Nova and various roundabouts will be lit up in green, as green is the colour that symbolises mental health.
Another action is the performance this
Thursday 3 October in the Auditorium of ‘Vesania’, a play by the company Producciones Contrahecho. The play depicts a space in which four people, ostracised from society because they are considered mentally ill, try to survive and reflect on a world that no longer exists for them. Their life, in this place halfway between a mental sanatorium and limbo, is a metaphor for the ruin and civilisation already lost. Admission is free until full capacity is reached.
The programme includes two sports days of basketball and football for the users of the Maite Boronat Occupational Centre. And on 10 October, World Mental Health Day, the institutional manifesto on Mental Health will be read out in the Plaza Miguel Roselló. This event will feature the batucada of the Maite Boronat Occupational Centre.
The Councillor for Social Policy, Itziar Doval, explains that ‘The idea from the outset is to equate physical health with mental health to have resources to help improve it. There is a clear objective with these celebrations and that is to give visibility and raise awareness of the importance of mental health in our society. There are many factors that can damage our state of wellbeing and affect our mental health, because we are extremely vulnerable. We can all, at some point, feel overwhelmed by circumstances. Insecurity, fear, bereavement, illness. The truth is that there are situations that we do not know how to manage alone and it is essential to ask for help in time.