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10 years of #GrandChallenges, #innovativesolutions and its significance for #globalmentalhealth

October 22, 2014 By Kathryn Leave a Comment

Last week, from the 6th to the 10th of October, I got the opportunity to attend the #GrandChallenges in #globalhealth annual meeting in Seattle. This year’s anniversary event, attended byContinue Reading

Filed Under: Events, Health, Jagannath Lamichhane, Movement for Global Mental Health, Suicide Prevention, Uncategorized, Women's Health Tagged With: Bill Gates, global mental health, Grand Challenges, health, hope, hope is teachable, hopelessness, Jagannath Lamichhane, Melinda Gates, movement for global mental health, suicide prevention, teach hope

Health and Hope Can Prevent Suicide

September 22, 2014 By Kathryn Leave a Comment

#stopsuicide #globalcrisis #hope #suicideprevention Every 40 seconds, an individual life is lost to suicide. The World Health Organization (WHO) calls it a #globalcrisis and estimates that the global suicide figureContinue Reading

Filed Under: Depression, Events, Health, iFred, International, Jagannath Lamichhane, Mental Health, Movement for Global Mental Health, Research, Suicide Prevention, Youth Tagged With: depression, depression advocacy, end stigma, finding hope, global mental health, health, hope, hope is teachable, hopelessness, iFred, international depression blog, Jagannath Lamichhane, suicide prevention, teach hope, world health organization

Mental health is a worthwhile goal for United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda

August 26, 2014 By Kathryn Leave a Comment

The post-2015 development goals will, as we know, set out the world’s development agenda for the foreseeable future—in the same way that the Millennium Development Goals provided a frameworkContinue Reading

Filed Under: Events, Health, iFred, International, Jagannath Lamichhane, Mental Health, Movement for Global Mental Health, Research Tagged With: Bidushi Dhungel, depression advocacy, end stigma, finding hope, global mental health, health, hope, hope is teachable, hopelessness, international depression blog, Jagannath Lamichhane, suicide prevention, teach hope, world health organization

Young and Vulnerable: The biggest tragedy regarding youth mental illness is collective inaction

August 19, 2014 By Kathryn 2 Comments

This year, United Nations International Youth Day (IYD), on August 12, has been designated to celebrate the importance of youth mental health with the slogan ‘Mental Health Matters’. This isContinue Reading

Filed Under: Children, Depression, Events, Health, iFred, International, Jagannath Lamichhane, Mental Health, Movement for Global Mental Health, Research, Suicide and Grief, Uncategorized, Youth Tagged With: end stigma, global mental health, health, hope, hope is teachable, hopelessness, iFred, international depression blog, Jagannath Lamichhane, movement for global mental health, schools for hope, suicide prevention, teach hope, world health organization, youth

Depression and anxiety are linked to happiness and there’s plenty that can be done from a young age

August 14, 2014 By Kathryn 19 Comments

In the last blog, I talked about the World Happiness Report 2013 and began to explore the links between mental health and happiness. I want to explore this in furtherContinue Reading

Filed Under: Brain Nutrition, Depression, Exercise, Health, iFred, Inspiration, International, Jagannath Lamichhane, Meditation, Suicide Prevention, Teens, Uncategorized, Youth Tagged With: children, depression, finding hope, health, hope, hope is teachable, hopelessness, iFred, international depression blog, Jagannath Lamichhane, mental health, suicide prevention, teach hope

The Path to Happiness is Sound Mental Health

August 5, 2014 By Kathryn Leave a Comment

In July 2011 the UN General Assembly passed a historic resolution: It invited member countries to measure the happiness of their people and to use this to help guide theirContinue Reading

Filed Under: Health, iFred, Inspiration, International, Mental Health, Movement for Global Mental Health, Research, Youth Tagged With: depression advocacy, happiness, health, hope, hope is teachable, hopelessness, international depression blog, Jagannath Lamichhane, mental health, movement for global mental health, suicide prevention, teach hope