{"id":1714,"date":"2025-05-09T14:48:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T13:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2025-05-09T14:48:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T13:48:38","slug":"mental-health-awareness-week-12-18-may-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/mental-health-awareness-week-12-18-may-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health Awareness Week 12-18 May 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><b>This year&#8217;s theme for Mental Health Awareness Week is \u201cCommunity\u201d .<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><b>Social connections and community are vital for mental health and wellbeing.<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">In Dorset we have over <b>8,000<\/b> people diagnosed with a serious mental illness and over <b>80% <\/b>of these people have one or more additional long-term condition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><b>18% <\/b>of the population of Dorset, more than <b>145,000<\/b> people, have a diagnosis of depression.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The rate of depression diagnosis differs depending on where people live in Dorset, with <b>15% <\/b>in the least deprived areas and <b>21% <\/b>in the most deprived areas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">To find out more about Mental Health Awareness Week visit <a href=\"https:\/\/mentalhealth-uk.org\/\">Mental Health UK &#8211; Forward Together<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">For top tips on getting involved in your community <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentalhealth.org.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-04\/MHF_Tips_2pp_A4-FINAL.pdf\">click here<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s theme for Mental Health Awareness Week is \u201cCommunity\u201d . Social connections and community are vital for mental health  &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":1715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1716,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions\/1716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}