We are an organisation dedicated to improving mental health in Romania.

We are raising awareness about mental illness and working to increase access to specialised services for those in need.

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Through our map, we hope to make mental health services in Romania more transparent and more accessible for everyone.

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Let’s bring mental health (education) to high schools!

In the winter of 2021, we started bringing mental health workshops to high schools around the country. To have a bigger reach, we need teachers to collaborate with, who can facilitate the organisation of our workshops during their classes. Do you want us to come to your school?

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Today’s read

This is one of the winning entries in our mental health design competition. To see the rest of the winning illustrations, photos, poems or prose, visit our online gallery.

Anxietate

Carmen-Marcela Toader • Honorable Mention

Mă apasă frigul, mă apasă
Mă privesc ochii fără casă.
E prea frig ca să zâmbești
Unde ai pleca ca să iubești?

Apa de pe tâmple
Tot o să se întâmple,
Iar sângele grăbit
Are să fie frică, negreșit!……

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Sleep disorders: everything you need to know

What is sleep and why is it important? Sleep is a natural, universal and essential process. It is the period during the day when the brain enters a reversible state of loss of consciousness, responding mainly only to signals from within the body [1, 2]. Sleep itself is of two types - REM and non-REM sleep
Femeie îngrădită de brațele partenerului

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Invisible but real: Understanding psychological abuse

“I’ve reread hundreds of times your messages telling me I was too much. The messages where you made me feel small and unimportant. I agreed with you. In the end, you repeated those awful things about me so many times, I felt like they came true. It took a long time to realize that I ...
Persoană epuizată cu capul pe masă la muncă

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Mental health at work

The workplace plays an important role in our mental health. Burnout, defined as a state of physical, emotional and mental exhaustion caused by chronic stress at work, is an increasingly common problem today. If unmanaged, it can further worsen work performance, personal relationships and even physical health. Mental health at work is therefore essential. Here ...
canvas bag from the Mental Health for Romania shop
mental health stickers from the Mental Health for Romania shop

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Mental Health for Romania volunteer wearing a t-shirt from the organization's shop

In the media

Adevărul

Mental health disorders, the conditions that don’t show up on blood tests

A very helpful initiative is that of the Mental Health for Romania association, called the Map of Professionals. It centralises accredited mental health professionals offering scientifically validated interventions in Romania. Those included on the map are encouraged to offer free or discounted services to vulnerable people, and a free first session to all users of the map.

Scoolmedia (Bulgaria)

Tackling the Mental Health Crisis in Bulgarian and Romanian Schools

There are significant gaps in the governmental policies of both countries regarding mental health support for young people. (…) Ioana Tonceanu, an outreach coordinator for Mental Health for Romania, explains that there is a lack of more reliable information and too few professionals who would be able to deal with this situation. Another failing is the fact that although most school specialists have received training on students’ development, they don’t have sufficient knowledge regarding their vulnerabilities.

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