2030 is the date marked on the calendar to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and specifically the ODS3 its purpose is to contribute in the field of health and well-being ‘Ensuring a healthy life and promoting well-being for all at all ages’.
In this context, and taking this year 2022 as the key to starting initiatives that lead to this goal, companies, institutions and society show a growing interest in taking steps in this area, achieving the goal and placing mental health as part from day to day in the public agenda.
Recently the Minister of Education and Vocational Training, Pillar Joyannounced the creation of a Mental Health Plan endowed with €5 million framed within the 2021-2024 Mental Health and Covid-19 Action Plan.
For their part, brands from different sectors are also advancing with actions to guarantee psychological health and well-being. just a few days ago IKEA and the General Council of Psychology released preliminary conclusions of a study that analyzes the relationship of different aspects of life at home with well-being, happiness and other psychological variables such as anxiety or loneliness, reports servimedia.
The study found that 1 out of 3 Spaniards presents a probable case of anxiety1 in 4 a probable case of depression and 1 in 5 have experienced suicidal ideation in the last month, while almost half report having perceived sleep problems and 1 in 8 say they feel lonely.
Maybelline New York has also presented a program to give visibility to mental health, also offering help tools under the name ‘Brave Together’. It is aimed at all people who are going through a moment of anxiety or depression and need help.
Reference communities such as bad mothers A few weeks ago, it also launched the Yo Me Cuido Telephone, which offers psychological care for women who face different mental health problems.
Finally, this interest is also reflected in the literary world, one of the books that has become a revelation in recent months is ‘In case the voices return’ by Ángel Martín, a surprising testimony that aims to break the stigma of diseases mental.