World Mental Health Day 2008 and How Does it Feel?

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Fast approaching is a day that advocates for mental health patients, bringing light in today's day and age with lack of education and awareness to something so plaguing. The #dALIFE Help with Life chat helps with many people with life-related problems every day, and as such feels its part in the deviantART community to break borders and try to expand knowledge on something so complex as mental health.

As such, in getting ready for the October 10th, 2008 World Mental Health Day, we are putting on a "How Does it Feel?" contest, and preparing for an "In-Chat Discussion" around mental health and what we can do as a collective whole to help.

:star: Please read and :+favlove: our news article.

How does it feel?
For this contest, we simply ask the question: "How Does it Feel?" How does it feel to be a mental health patient? How does it feel to interact with a person with mental health issues that doesn't understand them? How does it feel to be a family member of someone who has mental health concerns?

We want you to design posters. Take photos. Draw. Write. Do whatever you do. We want you to create something that tries to sum up how it feels. There aren't any rules for this one - we just ask you try to keep all of the entries clean from excessive violence/nudity/etc.

:star: Contest deadline is October 10, 2008 at 24:59:59 EST.
:star: All entries should be noted to the devlife account with the subject line as "How Does it Feel?" including a link to the deviation.
:star: All entries will be judged by a secret panel consisting of various #dALIFE Helpers.


Prize List
:bulletred: Journal feature by arthaus
:bulletred: Journal feature by devlife
:bulletred: Custom poem by Oughter

:star: If you would like to donate a prize, please get in contact with arthaus.

In-Chat Discussion
On October 11, 2008, meet with other deviants to both share experiences with mental health, and find ways that we as the deviantART community can bring awareness to mental health. #dALIFE will be hosting a chat channel discussion from 4PM-10PM EST (GMT 8PM-2AM) that everyone is invited to. We would love for you to come and share your experiences (or hear from others) - through this discussion we hope to find ways that we can take steps towards a brighter tomorrow.

:star: The chat will be hosted in #dALIFE (chat.deviantart.com/chat/dalif…).

Coming Soon:
Posters, stamps, and more to advertise the contest/in-chat discussion!
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Phoenician-Roses's avatar
I have a question, I know that this is about mental health and you stated that mental retardation is different than mental illness, but does this mean that we can't use mental retardation?
I have an idea that involves it an other things, but I just wanted to make sure if I use it or not.