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Introduction: Your mental health, as well as your physical health are important to your overall health and well-being. Many persons neglect their mental health while others are hesitant to seek help due to the stigma and discrimination that still exists in Jamaica. It’s okay to seek help!

• 1 in 4 adults have experienced mental health issues
• 40% of Jamaicans meet the criteria for Personality Disorders
• Depression and Schizophrenia are the most commonly diagnosed mental illnesses in Jamaica
• Less than 10% of Jamaica's annual GDP is spent on mental health
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What can you do?

• Understand that mental (and physical) health exists on a continuum and life’s events can cause us to be at various places on that continuum
• Educate yourself and others about the various issues concerning mental health and illness
• See the PERSON, not the illness
• Commit to demonstrate values of RESPECT and INCLUSION to all those who live with mental illness