We celebrate key mental health and wellbeing awareness days throughout the year to help raise awareness of mental health and well-being issues.
Below is a list of key dates for mental health awareness days for 2022 and 2023. As these are great days to celebrate on social media, we've also included some helpful hashtags.
If you're looking to raise mental health awareness and celebrate one of these mental health awareness days in a meaningful way, why not run a Corporate Wellness Lunch and Learn session for your employees? We also run Online Mental Health Lunch and Learns.
Mental health awareness dates for your diary
Mental Health Awareness Calendar 2022
January
- 17th Blue/Brew Monday (3rd Monday of January)
February
- 3rd Time to Talk Day - #TimeToTalk
- 7-13th Children's Mental Health Awareness Week - #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek
- 28th of February - 6th of March - Eating Disorder Awareness Week - #EDAW2022
March
- 1st Self Injury Awareness Day - #SIAD
- 3rd University Mental Health Awareness Day - #UniMentalHealthDay
- 18th World Sleep Day - #WorldSleepDay
- 20th International Day of Happiness - #InternationalDayofHappiness
- 21st - 27th Neurodiversity Celebration Week -#NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek
- 28th March - 3rd April - World Autism Acceptance Week - #AutismAcceptanceWeek
- 30th World Bi-Polar Awareness - #WorldBipolarDay
April
- 1st - 30th Stress Awareness Month - #StressAwarenessMonth2022
- 1st - 30th World Autism Month - #WorldAutismMonth
- 2nd World Autism Awareness Day - #WorldAutismDay
- 7th World Health Day - #WorldMentalHealthDay
- 28th World Health and Safety at Work Day - #HealthAtWork
May
- National Walking Month - #WalkThisMay
- 2nd- 8th Maternity Mental Health Awareness Week - #MaternalMHmatters
- 12th ME Awareness Day - #MEAwarenessDay
- 9th-15th Mental Health Awareness Week - #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
- 21st World Meditation Day - #WorldMeditationDay
June
- 1st - 30th International Men’s Health Month - #MensHealthMonth
- 13th -19th International Men’s Health Week - #MensHealthWeek
- 18th Father’s Mental Health Awareness Day - #FathersMentalHealthAwareness
July
- 24th Samaritans Awareness Day - #SamaritansAwarenessDay
September
- 10th World Suicide Prevention Day - #WorldSuicidePreventionDay
- 19th- 25th Happiness at Work - #HappinessAtWorkWeek
October
- 10th World Mental Health Day - #WorldMentalHealthDay
November
- 2nd Stress Awareness Day - #StressAwarenessDay (First week of November)
December
- 5th International Volunteer Day - #IVD2022
Mental Health Awareness Calendar 2023
As not all of the dates for 2023 are yet confirmed, we've included some TBC estimates. We have made it clear when we do this and will update the calendar as dates are announced!
January
- 16th Blue/Brew Monday (3rd Monday of January)
February
- 2nd Time to Talk Day - #TimeToT
- Children's Mental Health Awareness Week (DATE TBC - Normally, the first full week of February which would be 6th -12th of February 2023)
March
- 1st Self Injury Awareness Day - #SIAD
- Eating Disorder Awareness Week - #EDAW2022 (DATE TBC - Moves between late February and early March)
- University Mental Health Awareness Day (DATE TBC)
- World Sleep Day - #WorldSleepDay (DATE TBC - Mid-March)
- 20th International Day of Happiness - #InternationalDayofHappines
- Neurodiversity Celebration Week - #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek (DATE TBC - Late March)
- World Autism Acceptance Week - #AutismAcceptanceWeek (DATE TBC - Late March/Early April)
- 30th World Bi-Polar Awareness - #WorldBipolarDay
April
- 1st - 30th Stress Awareness Month - #StressAwarenessMonth2023
- 1st - 30th World Autism Month - #WorldAutismMonth
- 2nd World Autism Awareness Day - #WorldAutismDay
- 7th World Health Day - #WorldMentalHealthDay
- 28th World Health and Safety at Work Day - #HealthAtWork
- Maternity Mental Health Awareness Week - #MaternalMHmatters (Last week of April/first week of May)
May
- 1st - 31st National Walking Month - #WalkThisMay
- 12th ME Awareness Day - #MEAwarenessDay
- Mental Health Awareness Week - #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek (DATE TBC - Mid-May)
- 21st World Meditation Day - #WorldMeditationDay
June
- 1st - 30th International Men’s Health Month - #MensHealthMonth
- 18th Father’s Mental Health Awareness Day - #FathersMentalHealthAwareness
July
- 24th Samaritans Awareness Day - #SamaritansAwarenessDay
September
- 10th World Suicide Prevention Day - #WorldSuicidePreventionDay
- 18th- 24th Happiness at Work - #HappinessAtWorkWeek
- (DATE TBC - Last full week of September)
October
- 10th World Mental Health Day - #WorldMentalHealthDay
November
- 1st Stress Awareness Day - #StressAwarenessDay (First Wednesday of November)
December
- 5th International Volunteer Day - #IVD2023
Do you run a mental health awareness day that we've not listed? Please get in touch and we'll add it to our calendar.
Please note that this blog is updated regularly and was originally published in 2020.