Sagunto celebrates World Mental Health Day (October 10) with a varied program of activities to raise awareness in society about this problem. The talks, workshops and the rest of the awareness-raising dynamics on mental health have been organized by the Department of Social Services and will take place between October 7 and 11, as well as the 21st of the same month.
According to this department of the Sagunto City Council, “raise awareness, face, unity, freedom, understand, prioritize, sensitize, support, prevent, normalize, make visible, respect, care, are the words, most of them verbs, with which the people who participate in The SASEM program (Care and Monitoring Service for Mental Illness) of the municipal Social Services has defined what is necessary to care for mental health. Verbs that are transformed into actions that they expect from those around them and from society as a whole.”
Promoted by the World Federation for Mental Health and with the support of the World Health Organization, for 22 years on October 10, World Mental Health Day, events have been organized as a representation of the commitment to raise awareness about mental health problems. mental health around the world and mobilize support efforts. This 2024 the global motto is ‘Work and mental health, a fundamental link’.
So the Sagunto City Council joins this day, from the experience and daily practice of those who participate in the SASEM program, professionals and users, to highlight the challenge of transforming the stigma around mental health problems. in acceptance and respect.
The Councilor for Social Services, Nuria Carbó, stated: “Just as we know everything that benefits our physical health, we must pay attention to everything that is good and necessary for our mental health.” Likewise, the councilor of the Sagunto City Council explained: “The intention is to normalize people with mental problems, since a person who is well diagnosed and with the correct treatment is no longer a person with mental problems.”
On Monday the 7th and Tuesday the 8th there will be an opening of the ceramics workshop to the school community, with the presence of 6th grade students from the Tierno Galván school, the students will enjoy the process of creating a piece together with the people who usually attend to the workshop. In this way, the aim is to generate a direct interaction that brings students closer to the reality of people who have some type of problem in relation to mental health and thus avoid the formation of prejudices that end in stigmas.
On the afternoon of Tuesday the 8th, at 5:30 p.m., the Valencian Association of Bipolar Disorder (AVTB) will offer an awareness talk open to all citizens at the Old Sanatorium Civic Center, located in the Threshold Triangle of the center of Puerto de Sagunto .
On Thursday the 10th at 10 a.m. there will be a session open to the citizens of mindfulness at the Voramar Center (avda. Mediterráneo, nº 38). This workshop is an introduction to the practice of mindfulness through practical experiences that will allow those who participate to connect with their body and their senses and focus on the here and now. It is an ancient Buddhist practice that has profound relevance to life today. Mindfulness means paying attention in a certain way, deliberately, in the present moment and without judgment, which allows you to develop greater awareness, clarity and acceptance of the reality of the present moment. Registration for the workshop is done through the QR code that appears in the image inserted on the City Council website at the end of this news.
On Friday the 11th at 11 a.m. the people participating in the theater workshop will give a sample of the work they have done: Among all the shadows, one, at the Casal Jove in Puerto de Sagunto (c/ Vent de Marinada, s/n). At the end of the exhibition and in the same place, around 12 noon, a workshop will be held on stigma, taught by Silvia Garcia Esteban, mental health trainer and advisor. Silvia García develops activities as a therapeutic companion, peer to peerreading mediator with people with mental health problems and trainer from first-person experience. He has turned his experience of mental suffering into a powerful tool to accompany other people suffering from mental health problems.
Finally, on Monday, October 21 at 6:30 p.m., in collaboration with the Nautilus Cultural Association and to continue addressing mental health stigma, they will be screened at the Puerto de Sagunto Culture House (c/ Progreso, nº 5) the short ones We vote and Cristina Martín-The INCA princess with a subsequent colloquium talk in which Rosana Corral, psychiatrist and member of APROSAM (Association for Mental Health Horta Nord and Camp de Morvedre) and Miriam Pozuelo, psychologist from SASEM, will participate, and in which we will have first-person testimonies.
