Physical Activity and Exercise - Mental Health Awareness Week 2013

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week with this year's campaign themed around physical activity and well-being.

For one week each May, the Mental Health Foundation campaigns around a specific theme for Mental Health Awareness Week.

This year's campaign runs until this Sunday (19 May) and will be highlighting the impact exercise has on mental health and wellbeing.

Exercise can do a lot to enhance our happiness and quality of life and as a result reduce mental illness and there are a host of events planned for the coming week which support this idea.

Since the first Mental Health Awareness Week in 2000 the campaign has helped explain to the public how things like loneliness, anger, fear, alcohol and friendship can influence our mental health.

For further information about this year's campaign please visit the Mental Health Awareness Week page on the Mental Health Foundation website.