Mental health problems are part of our lives and another circumstance of the person, not an element that must nullify the rest of our capabilities. During recent years, especially since the COVD pandemic, as is well known and reported by dozens of studies, the mental health problems suffered by the population have increased.
Therefore, one of the objectives of this campaign is to destigmatize mental health problems and help people in the university and non-university community to obtain tools that allow them to achieve recovery and improve their quality of life.
The starting signal was given by the opening event of the academic year, on September 28, entitled “Breaking barriers: mental health and well-being at stake, a priority of the new millennium?”, which was led by Professor Joan Deus , professor of Clinical and Health Psychology and care coordinator of the Psychology and Speech Therapy Service (SPL) of the Faculty of Psychology of the UAB.
From September 26 to October 3, the UAB organized Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Promotion Week, which included the activities scheduled during the days.
Also, during September, the Science Wagon entered circulation, a joint initiative of the UAB and Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya (FGC) that will offer each course a single-thematic interactive exhibition inside one of the trains on the line that passes through the UAB and which this year, in its first edition, is dedicated to mental health.
Other activities that complement the programming throughout the course are “La Comunitària” of the UAB (party of campus entities), the III Inclusive Artistic Week, the XIV Healthy and Sustainable Week, as well as other conferences and activities on human rights and mental health, eating disorders, unwanted loneliness or anxiety and stress.
