The open nature of Twitter can spark conversations between people facing similar challenges around the world. Talking about mental health problems helps make a reality visible and break the stigma associated with mental health, as well as generating empathy and respect. In this sense, the hashtag #saludmental – #mentalhealth- has joined the global conversation to raise awareness and normalize the discussion around mental health.
One of the big trends that they have identified this year from Twitter Spain is what they have called MENTAL PEACE: Stop so you can move on.
After two years of pandemic and the crisis that this entails, many users seek to compensate on Twitter the emotional instability that all this causes by focusing on your health. This time is characterized by mental exhaustion (there is 64% of mentions if we compare it with the previous year), which has caused many people to seek relief and understanding in different ways. Prejudices about mental health are falling little and giving way to a more open and honest dialogue with which to connect more openly with others and ourselves.
Through characters, many people support each other by expressing their emotions, talking about their own feelings and experiences. mentions of the word “therapy” have increased by 61% year over year. In this sense, conversation about spirituality is up 44%, people are talking about new methods of personal discovery and self-knowledge (+127% of mentions vs. the previous year), according to data provided to Antena 3 Noticias from Twitter Spain.
Public figures and influencers also have an important role to continue making visible that going to the psychologist is not bad, on the contrary. Figures as relevant on the Internet as Ibai Llanos (@IbaiLlanos) have expressed it through the social network.
With messages like “I’ve been going to the psychologist for four months and I couldn’t be happier. Don’t hesitate to seek help if you need it,” contributes, makes visible and helps its community of more than 9.1 million Twitter followers.
Caroline Iglesias (known in the networks as @PercebesYGrelos) is also a great ambassador of #MentalHealth. He tells about the benefits of going to therapy, both in his successful podcast ‘Stretching gum’ and through his social networks.
“The experiences of adolescence are still there, because they mark you forever, but with therapy they can be controlled”, confess.
singer and actress Angy Fernandez has also made visible the importance of mental health and need to be accessible to all.
At the end of last year he launched a direct message to the Government via Twitter: “More mental health professionals are needed in public health.
People are desperate and need help.”
The actress Ana Milan also spoke loud and clear on the subject in the networksbecoming viral his tweet about suicide. “You have to talk about mental health, you have to invest, be able to talk about what happens to you when your soul hurts”manifested.
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According to official data from Twitter Spain, if we compare this month of May (mental health awareness month) with the previous year, we see that the use of the hashtag #saludmental has increased by 28%.
Mental health is becoming more visible and present: So far in 2022, the use of the hashtag is being used more regularly throughout the year, while in the same period of 2021, 40% of the mentions of the hashtag were concentrated on a single day, March 17 As a result of the controversial “Go to the doctor!”the cry of a PP deputy to Errejón in Congress while speaking about mental health problems.
The hashtag grew that day following the publication of this Tweet from Blas Cantó and Iñigo Errejón himself.
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