What are the core contents of Mental Health Day?

The core content of Mental Health Day is: caring for yourself, understanding yourself, accepting yourself, paying attention to your own mental health and spiritual growth, improving your own psychological quality, and then loving others and society.

In 2004, the Ministry of Education, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, and the All-China Federation of Students Office issued an initiative to college students across the country to designate May 25 each year as National College Student Mental Health Day. At this time of year, major universities across the country hold relevant theme activities to call on people to pay attention to the mental health of college students.

The origin of Mental Health Day

In order to guide college students to pay attention to their own mental health, in 2000, the "5.25 National College Student Mental Health Day" kicked off at Beijing Normal University. "5.25" is homophonic to "I love me", which means caring for one's own psychological growth and health. The theme of the event is college students' interpersonal communication and mutual help issues, and the slogan is "I love me - get out of the island of the soul."

Since then (2004), the Ministry of Education, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, and the All-China Federation of Students Office issued an initiative to college students across the country to designate May 25 each year as National College Student Mental Health Day.

"5.25" is the homophonic pronunciation of "I love me". The initiator's explanation is: Only by loving yourself can you love others better. The first standard of mental health is to know oneself, accept oneself, be able to experience the value of one's own existence, be optimistic and confident, such a person can get along with others with an attitude of respect, trust, friendship and tolerance, and can share, receive and give love. and friendship, being able to work together with others.