LEAMS Education schools create awareness on mental health that could cost the global economy US$16trln a year by 2030

LEAMS Education schools create awareness on mental health that could cost the global economy US$16trln a year by 2030

Dubai: Schools belonging to LEAMS Education – a futuristic education group that manages four schools with 8200 students – is organizing a number of health, wellness and yoga sessions as part of the World Mental Health Day to improve mental health that is causing huge loss in productivity and draining personal wealth.

Every year October 10 is marked as World Mental Health Day – to help create global awareness on mental health that affects more than 2 billion people worldwide.

Mental disorders are on the rise in every country in the world and will cost the global economy $16 trillion by 2030, according to the latest Lancet Commission report on mental health. The economic cost is primarily due to early onset of mental illness and lost productivity, with an estimated 12 billion working days lost due to mental illness every year, it said.

“Mental health is often neglected and underfunded, even though nearly 2 billion people suffer from mental illness every year,” said Dr Janice Cooper, co-author of the Lancet Commission report who leads the Carter Center’s mental health work in Liberia.

The economic case for investment in mental health is strong: for every $1 invested in scaled-up treatment for depression and anxiety, there